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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.

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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

• 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)[3]
• 2018 — Rauschenberg Foundation Resident—Captiva Island, Florida[10]
• 2018 — Her poem "Seraphim" listed in the New Yorker's Years in Poems[11]

References

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.

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Location Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture) Identifiers Sc MG 975  Source Patricia Spears Jones papers 1970s-2010s
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Patricia Spears Jones, née en 1951 à Forest City dans l'Arkansas, est une poétesse américaine. Elle est notamment l'auteure de plusieurs recueils de poésie. Patricia Spears Jones a coédité Ordinary Women: Poems of New York City Women.

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