PiP 154: Crystal D. Mayo

Poets in Pajamas brings you Crystal D. Mayo at 7 pm Eastern (4 pm Pacific) on Sunday, February 19th with a 15-minute live reading immediately followed by a short Q&A. The event will be held over the Poets in Pajamas Zoom and streamed on the Poets in Pajamas Facebook page.

Crystal D. Mayo is a Native New Yorker born and raised in the South Bronx. She is an African Amerian writer, actress and storyteller whose Southern roots are highly influential in her writing craft. Crystal’s repertoire of writing spans from memoirs and poetry to children’s books. Her literary contributions have been published in the Bronx Memoir Project Volumes three and four, The African Voices tribute to Ntozake Shange and Our Voices Our Stories, an anthology of Writings Advancing, Celebrating, Embracing and Empowering Girls and Women of Color through the National Girls and Women of Council Inc. Her memoir “Wicked Blues” will be featured in the Connecticut Literary Anthology 2021 this fall. When Crystal is not writing she serves as a mentor for the New York based organization, Girls Write Now.

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Join us at the PiP Zoom or on the PiP Facebook page at 7 pm Eastern (4 pm Pacific) on Sunday, February 19th. 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. The land on which Sundress Publications operates is part of the traditional territory of the Tsalagi peoples (now Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, and United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians) and Tsoyaha peoples (Yuchi, Muscogee Creek).

PiP 153: Pamela Murray Winters

Poets in Pajamas brings you Pamela Murray Winters at 7 pm Eastern (4 pm Pacific) on February 5 with a 15-minute live reading immediately followed by a short Q&A. The event will be held over the PiP Zoom and streamed on the PiP Facebook page.

Pamela Murray Winters lives in Maryland. Her poems have appeared in many journals and
anthologies, including the Gettysburg Review, Gargoyle, and Beltway Poetry. Her debut
collection The Unbeckonable Bird (FutureCycle Press) was published in 2018. She has an MFA
from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and she received a 2017 Maryland State Arts Council
Individual Artist Award. She assists with the legendary Evil Grin Poetry Series in Annapolis and
organized the 2017 Writers Resist reading there. She hates writing about herself in the first
person.

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Join us at the Poets in Pajamas Zoom or on the Poets in Pajamas Facebook page at 7 pm Eastern (4 pm Pacific) on Sunday February 5th. 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. The land on which Sundress Publications operates is part of the traditional territory of the Tsalagi peoples (now Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, and United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians) and Tsoyaha peoples (Yuchi, Muscogee Creek).