PiP 117 Featuring .chisaraokwu.

Poets in Pajamas brings you .chisaraokwu. at 7 pm Eastern (4 pm Pacific) on July 25 with a 15-minute live reading immediately followed by a short Q&A. The event will be held at the PiP Facebook page.

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.chisaraokwu. (she/her) is an Igbo poet, actor & healthcare futurist. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals including Obsidian, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Midnight & Indigo, Cutthroat, & Tinderbox Poetry. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies in the US and overseas, including Cave Canem (2020). She earned her BA in History from Stanford University and her MD from Duke University School of Medicine.

“The Edge of Black“, Tinderbox Poetry Journal

“The Suicide Bomber Climbs a Mountain and Leaves a Note”, Glass: A Journal of Poetry

“The Dancer“, Midnight & Indigo, Celebrating Black Women Writers

Join us at the Poets in Pajamas Facebook page at 7 pm Eastern (4 pm Pacific) on July 25, 2021 When the live video starts, click join to watch the reading and interact with the poet.

This reading series is hosted courtesy of Sundress Publications.

PiP 116 Featuring Dena Rod

Poets in Pajamas brings you Dena Rod at 7 pm Eastern (4 pm Pacific) on July 11 with a 15-minute live reading immediately followed by a short Q&A. The event will be held at the PiP Facebook page.

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Dena Rod is a non-binary poet whose work has been highlighted in My Shadow is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora, Butter Press, and Imagoes: A Queer Anthology. In 2020, Dena toured with Sister Spit, debuted the chapbook swallow a beginning, and joined The Rumpus‘s features team. A fellow of Kearny Street Workshop’s Interdisciplinary Writer’s Lab, Dena writes to illuminate their experiences in the Iranian American diaspora and queer communities through creative nonfiction essays and poetry. Connect with Dena on Twitter/Instagram: @alightningrod or at their website, denarod.com.

“In a Beginning” and “The Wrong Kind of Flowers”, Butter Press

“please don’t call it a “guzzle””, Dear Quarantine Diary

“gamma-aminobutyric acid or GABA” Forum Magazine

Join us at the Poets in Pajamas Facebook page at 7 pm Eastern (4 pm Pacific) on July 11, 2021 When the live video starts, click join to watch the reading and interact with the poet.

This reading series is hosted courtesy of Sundress Publications.

PiP 115 Featuring Akua Lezli Hope

Poets in Pajamas brings you Akua Lezli Hope at 7 pm Eastern (4 pm Pacific) on June 27  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!

Akua Lezli Hope is a creator and wisdom seeker who uses sound, words, fiber, glass, metal, and wire to create poems, patterns, stories, music, sculpture, adornments, and peace. She wrote her first speculative poems in the sixth grade and has been in print every year, except one, since 1974. She is published in numerous literary magazines and national anthologies. A third generation New Yorker, her honors include the NEA, two NYFAs, an SFPA award, Rhysling and Pushcart Prize nominations, among others. She twice won Rattle’s Poets Respond. Her first collection, EMBOUCHURE, Poems on Jazz and Other Musics, won the Writer’s Digest book award. A Cave Canem fellow, her collection, THEM GONE, was published 2018. She launched Speculative Sundays, an online poetry reading series, in 2020.She just won an individual artist grant for Now Voyager, her sculpture project about the immigration of her four grandparents from the West Indies to New York. She won Sundress Publications anthology competition to edit a speculative poetry anthology by BIPOC creators. Later this year, she is also editing an edition of Eye to the Telescope on the Sea.An avid hand papermaker and crochet designer with over 130 patterns published, she exhibits her artwork regularly. A paraplegic, she founded a paratransit nonprofit. Her chapbook, Otherwheres (ArtFarm Press 2020) is available on Amazon. She sings songs from her favorite anime in Japanese, practices her soprano saxophone and prays for the cessation of suffering for all sentience.

“Serve”, The New Verse News

“Igbo Landing”, Penumbra Online

“Luno”, Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association

Join us at the Poets in Pajamas Facebook page at 7 pm Eastern (4 pm Pacific) on June 27, 2021 When the live video starts, click join to watch the reading and interact with the poet.

This reading series is hosted courtesy of Sundress Publications.