Month: November 2023

PiP 166: Tzynya Pinchback & Emma Aylor

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Poets in Pajamas brings you Tzynya Pinchback and Emma Aylor at 7 pm Eastern (4 pm Pacific) on Sunday, November 12th with two 15-minute live readings, 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.

Tzynya Pinchback writes the Black woman body in nature, in illness, and in joy as a deliberate act. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and recent work appears in Deaf Poets Society, Lily Poetry Review, Mom Egg Review, Naugatuck River Review and others. She has received fellowships from the Cordial Eye Gallery & Artist Space, Hurston/Wright Foundation, and was finalist for 2020 Plymouth Poet Laureate. Tzynya is currently participating in Writing the Land Project connecting writers to conserved landscapes across the Northeast. She blogs about mermaids, surviving cancer and New England winters at http://www.tzynyapinchback.com.

“A Song For Desire” Mom Egg

“Two Poems” Deaf Poets Society

Emma Aylor is the author of Close Red Water (forthcoming October 2023), winner of the Barrow Street Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in New England Review, AGNI, Colorado Review, Poetry Daily, the Yale Review Online, and elsewhere. She lives in Lubbock, Texas, and her website is emmaaylor.com.

“The Distance” The Shore

“Museum and Other Poems” Narrative

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).