PiP 103 Featuring Donna Vorreyer

Poets in Pajamas brings you Donna Vorreyer at 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST) on November 1 with a 15-minute live reading immediately followed by a short Q&A. The event will be held at the PiP Facebook page.

By clicking “going” to the Facebook event, you will let us know to expect you and will ensure that you are sent a reminder, so you don’t forget. Remember to prepare your questions for the featured poet, too!

Donna Vorreyer is the author of Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (2016) and A House of Many Windows (2013), both from Sundress Publications. Her poems, reviews, and essays have appeared in Rhino, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Poet Lore, Sugar House Review, Waxwing, Whale Road Review, and many other journals. Her third full-length collection is forthcoming from Sundress in 2020.

“Builded Him an Alter,” Split Lip Magazine

“How to Change Your Mind in Thirty Minutes or Less,” diode

“After the Fires (A Nightmare),” dialogist

Join us at the Poets in Pajamas Facebook page at 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST) on November 1, 2020. When the live video starts, click join to watch the reading and interact with the poet.

Annie McIntosh will host.

This reading series is hosted courtesy of Sundress Publications.

PiP 102 Featuring Meryl Natchez

Poets in Pajamas brings you Meryl Natchez at 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST) on October 25 with a 15-minute live reading immediately followed by a short Q&A. The event will be held at the PiP Facebook page.

By clicking “going” to the Facebook event, you will let us know to expect you and will ensure that you are sent a reminder, so you don’t forget. Remember to prepare your questions for the featured poet, too!

Meryl Natchez’ new book, Catwalk, is from Longship Press (June, 2020). She is the translator of Poems From the Stray Dog Café: Akhmatova, Mandelstam and Gumilev, and co-translator of Tadeusz Borowski: Selected Poems. Her book of poems, Jade Suit, appeared in 2001, and her work has appeared in Hudson Review, Poetry Northwest, The American Journal of Poetry, ZYZZYVA, The Pinch Literary Review, Atlanta Review, Lyric, The Moth, Comstock Review, and many others. She is on the board of Marin Poetry Center and blogs at merylnatchez.com where you can find a 14-day Social Distance Online Learning Retreat with poems, prompts, and journal suggestions.

“Made of molecules,” Rappahannock Review
“Thinking about Einstein while waiting for the Big Blue Bus,” The American Journal of Poetry
“Poem with a Line from Amy Clampitt,” Talking Writing

Join us at the Poets in Pajamas Facebook page at 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST) on October 25, 2020. When the live video starts, click join to watch the reading and interact with the poet.

Sarah Clark will host.

This reading series is hosted courtesy of Sundress Publications.

PiP 101 Featuring Marlin M. Jenkins

Poets in Pajamas brings you Marlin M. Jenkins at 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST) on October 18 with a 15-minute live reading immediately followed by a short Q&A. The event will be held at the PiP Facebook page.

By clicking “going” to the Facebook event, you will let us know to expect you and will ensure that you are sent a reminder, so you don’t forget. Remember to prepare your questions for the featured poet, too!

Marlin M. Jenkins was born and raised in Detroit and is the author of the poetry chapbook Capable Monsters (Bull City Press, 2020). A graduate of University of Michigan’s MFA in poetry, his work has found homes with Indiana Review, The Rumpus, Waxwing, and Iowa Review, among other journals. You can find him online at marlinmjenkins.com.

“Surrender (with raised hands),” Waxwing

“Goldfish,” The Rumpus

“poem without awakening,” The Offing

Join us at the Poets in Pajamas Facebook page at 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST) on October 18, 2020. When the live video starts, click join to watch the reading and interact with the poet.

Annie McIntosh will host.

This reading series is hosted courtesy of Sundress Publications.

PiP 100 Featuring Kari Gunter-Seymour

Poets in Pajamas brings you Kari Gunter-Seymour at 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST) on October 11 with a 15-minute live reading immediately followed by a short Q&A. The event will be held at the PiP Facebook page.

By clicking “going” to the Facebook event, you will let us know to expect you and will ensure that you are sent a reminder, so you don’t forget. Remember to prepare your questions for the featured poet, too!

Kari Gunter-Seymour is a 9th generation Appalachian. Her award-winning poetry collection is titled A Place So Deep Inside America It Can’t Be Seen (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions 2020). Her poems appear in numerous journals and publications, including Verse-Virtual, Rattle, The LA Times and on her website: www.karigunterseymourpoet.com. A poem she wrote in support of families living in poverty in Athens County, OH, went viral and was seen by over 100,000 people, resulting in thousands of dollars donated to her local food pantry. She is a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, the 2020 Ohio Poet of the Year and Poet Laureate of Ohio.

“My Friend Loraine Asks Will I Go with Her to a Drag Show,” Rascal
“Oh You Women of Appalachia,” The American Journal of Poetry
“Trigger Warning,” Sheila-Na-Gig

Join us at the Poets in Pajamas Facebook page at 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST) on October 11, 2020. When the live video starts, click join to watch the reading and interact with the poet.

Sarah Clark will host.

This reading series is hosted courtesy of Sundress Publications.