Patricia Spears Jones Explained

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.

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)
• Living in the Love Economy (Overpass Books, 2014)
• Painkiller: Poems (Tia Chucha Press, 2010)
• Femme du Monde (Tia Chucha Press, 2006)
• The Weather That Kills (Coffee House Press, 1995)

Honors and awards

• 1994 — National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Literature Fellowship, recipient^[8]
• 1996 — Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award^[9]
• 2000 — Featured in The Best American Poetry (edited by Rita Dove)
• 2017 — Jackson Poetry Prize (awarded by Poets & Writers)
• 2018 — Rauschenberg Foundation Resident—Captiva Island, Florida^[10]
• 2018 — Her poem "Seraphim" listed in the New Yorker's Years in Poems^[11]

External links

• Patricia Spears Jones Official Homepage
• Bio at Tennessee Authors
• Bio at Poets & Writers
• Patricia Spears Jones books on Amazon
• Patricia Spears Jones papers, 1970s-2010s, held by Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.

Notes and References

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