Patricia Spears Jones

Patricia Spears Jones (born 1951) is an American poet. She is the author of five books of poetry. Jones is the editor of "The Future Differently Imagined", an issue of About Place Journal, the online publication of Black Earth Institute.[1] Previously, she was the co-editor for Ordinary Women: Poems of New York City Women. Her poem "Beuys and the Blonde" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.[2] Jones was the winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize for 2017,[3] and she will serve as the 2020 Louis D. Rubin Jr. Writer-in-Residence[4] at Hollins University.

Patricia Spears Jones at the Kelly Writers House in 2016

A native of Forrest City, Arkansas, Jones lives in New York City.[5] She received her BA from Rhodes College in 1973,[6] and her MFA from Vermont College in 1992.[7] She has been a constant presence in the New York writing community.

Bibliography

Poetry collections

  • A Lucent Fire: New and Selected Poems (White Pine Press, 2015) ISBN 9781935210696
  • Living in the Love Economy (Overpass Books, 2014) ISBN 9780983220664
  • Painkiller: Poems (Tia Chucha Press, 2010) ISBN 9781882688401
  • Femme du Monde (Tia Chucha Press, 2006) ISBN 9781882688319
  • The Weather That Kills (Coffee House Press, 1995) ISBN 9781566890298

Honors and awards

References
  1. "Patricia Spears Jones".
  2. Bhuvaneswar, Chaya (September 2, 2020). "Building and Building: Talking with Patricia Spears Jones". The Rumpus. Retrieved May 6, 2022.
  3. "Patricia Spears Jones wins $50,000 Jackson Poetry Prize". Poets & Writers. 2017-04-18.
  4. "Louis D. Rubin Jr. Writer-in-Residence at Hollins University". Hollins. Retrieved 2019-12-19.
  5. Sandage, Chivas (March 28, 2019). "Ms. Muse: Patricia Spears Jones Fights Patriarchy and Racism with Feminist Poetry". Black Earth Institute. Retrieved May 6, 2022.
  6. "Rhodes Alumna Patricia Spears Jones '73 Wins Prestigious Jackson Poetry Prize". Rhodes College. April 19, 2017. Retrieved May 6, 2022.
  7. "Patricia Spears Jones". Foundation for Contemporary Arts. 2014. Retrieved May 6, 2022.
  8. NEA Literature Fellowships > 40 Years of Supporting American Writers Archived August 11, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  9. "Patricia Spears Jones :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts". www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
  10. "Past Residents". Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. 2014-10-15. Retrieved 2019-12-19.
  11. Aizenman, Hannah (December 24, 2018). "Our Year in Poems". The New Yorker.
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