Patricia Spears Jones: Upcoming and Recent Events
2011
January 1, The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church
Annual Benefit Reading
Second Avenue & 10th Street
2 p.m. to midnight
contribution:
New York City
info@poetryproject.com or 212-674-0910
January 5, The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church
w/ Stephanie Brown
Curated by Joanna Fuhrman
Second Avenue & 10th Street
8 p.m.
contribution
New York City
info@poetryproject.com or 212-674-0910
February 18, The Harold Clurman Poetry Reading Series
The Stella Adler Studio
Curated by Peter Nickowitz
31 W. 27th Street, Floor 3
7 p.m.
Free
New York City
February 23, University of Vermont Montpelier
The Painted Word Poetry Series
w/ April Ossman
Curated by Prof. Major A. Jackson
Fleming Museum
6 p.m.
Free
Montpelier, Vermont
May 11, The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church
Group Reading for The Fast Life: Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos, ed.
by David Trinidad
131 E. 10th Street
8 p.m.
Contribution
New York, NY
info@poetryproject.com or 212-674-0910
June 15, The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church
Memorial Reading for Akilah Oliver
Organized by The Poetry Project & Belladonna
8 p.m.
New York NY
June 27-July 1, Manhattanville College
Summer Writers' Week
w/ Jennifer Egan, Gregory Orr, Nancy Willard, et al
Faculty reading June 28 w/ Nancy Willard
Purchase, New York
914-323-5239 for info on classes/credits/cost
August 30, Bryant Park Reading Room
Word for Word Poetry Series, curated by Paul Romero
w/ E. J. Antonio, Michael Cirelli, Marie-Elizabeth Mali
42nd Street & Sixth Avenue
7 p.m.
Free
Rain Venue: The General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen
20 West 44th Street
New York, NY
September 12, Fordham University
Poets Out Loud Reading Series
w/ Edwin Torres
113 West 60th Street (corner Columbus/Ninth Ave.), 12th Floor Lounge
Free
Books available
October 1, New York Botanical Gardens
A Season in Poetry organized by The Poetry Society of America
w/ James Allen Hall and Jeffrey Yang
4 p.m.
Bronx River Parkway at Fordham Road
Bronx, New York
(for directions see www.nybg.org)
October 30, Bowery Poetry Club
Fifth Anniversary, Bowery Women Poets
w/ many wonderful women poets
Hosted by Bob Holman & Marjorie Tesser, co-editors
Bowery & Bleeker
4 p.m.
$8.00 donation
Manhattan
November 14, Simmons College
Solo Reading
Room C311 Main Campus Building
The Fenway
6:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public
Boston, MA
2010
January 1, The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church
Annual Benefit Reading
Second Avenue & 10th Street
2 p.m. to midnight
contribution: $18
New York City
info@poetryproject.com or 212-674-0910
January 20
Working Authors Series
Persistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to AIDS
w/ Steven Cordova, Mark Doty, David Groff, Jon Nalley and Aimee Walker
The LGBT Community Center
208 W. 13th Street
6 p.m.
New York City
March 1, Art for Art's Sake/RUCMA
Evolving Voice Vocal Series
in Collaboration w/ Jason Hwang, composer/performer
THE LOCAL 269
269 E. Houston Street
7 p.m.
$10.00
New York City
March 7
Brownstone Reading Series
organized by African Voices
w/ Brenda Connor-Bey and Mariposa (Maria Teresa Fernandez)
316 W. 137th Street
3 p.m.
New York City
September 20, Evolving Voice Vocal Series
THE LOCAL 269
269 E. Houston Street
7 p.m.
$10.00
New York City
October 6
Basic and Bold, a Poetry Workshop--6 weeks
Poets House
10 River Terrace
New York, NY 10282
212-431-7920
Contact: Stephen Motika
November 19
Black Brooklyn Renaissance/Word is Brooklyn
Organized by Tai Allen for Brooklyn Arts Council
w/ Hanifah Walidah, George Davidson, Pamela Sneed, Edwina Tyler, et al
BAM Cafe
9-10:30 p.m./doors open at 8 p.m.
30 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn
Free
December 9, CNR.School of New Resources, Brooklyn Campus
Walking Distance: a Poetry Reading
Organized by Alexious Moore
w/ Willie Perdomo, Jacqueline Johnson and Melanie Goodreaux
Restoration Plaza, Skylight Gallery
7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
1368 Fulton Street
Free
Brooklyn
December 11
BOOK PARTY FOR PAINKILLER
CALABAR Imports
820 Washington Avenue
4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Brooklyn
718-623-9326
2009
January 1, The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church
Annual Benefit Reading
131 E. 10th Street
Second Avenue and 10th Street
Manhattan
2 p.m. to midnight
Contribution: $17.
For information: info@poetryproject.com or 212-674-0910
January 29, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Writers on the Edge Series, organized by Quincy Troupe
Moderator, The Powerful Masters: Lucille Clifton & Ishmael Reed
Langston Hughes Auditorium
135th Street & Malcolm X Blvd, Harlem
Tickets: $20.00; members: $16.00
March 14, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center (WAH)
Curated and Organized by Yuko Nii, Artistic Director
Reading for Woman Forward, an arts exhibition
With Lila Bita, Nicole Cooley, Serena J. Fox & Kristin Prevallet
6 p.m.
135 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY 11211
www.wahcenter.net or 718-486-6012
March 19, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Moderator, Pulitzer Prize Winners: Junot Diaz & Rita Dove
Langston Hughes Auditorium
135th Street & Malcolm X Blvd, Harlem
Tickets: $20.00; members $16.00
www.schomburgcener.org CANCELLED
April 24, Reading from Starting Over: 100 Days/100 Poems
Organized by Rachel Zucker
w/ Matt Rohrer, Joy Katz, Monica de la Torre, Corneilius Eady, et al
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House at NYU
58 West 10th Street
5:30 p.m. FREE
Manhattan
May 1, PEN World Voices Festival
The Language of Fear: A PEN America Event
readings from "fear forum" w/ Paul LaFarge from PEN America
Feature readers: Guillermo Fadanelli, Wayne Koestenbaum, Kathryn Roggla, et al
moderated by Jeffrey Lependorf
Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
6-7:30 p.m. FREE
Manhattan
May 16, The New York Botanical Garden
The Season in Poetry, a reading with Mark Bibbins & Jessica Greenbaum
Organized by the Poetry Society of America
3 p.m. Free
Bronx River Parkway at Fordham Road
Bronx, New York
(for directions see www.nybg.org)
May 29, The Jacob Javits Convention Center
Voices and Visions of New American Dreams
w/ Farai Chideya and Lori Tharps
Organized by Malaika Adero for Up South, Inc.
2009 Book Expo of America--African American Pavillion
655 West 35th Street, Meeting Room 1C01/1C02
2-4 p.m.
www.upsouth.org or bluemedia@aol.com
June 14, Vision Festival-Day 6
organized by Patricia N. Parker
Performance w/ violinist, Jason Hwang
6:30 p.m.
Abrons Arts Center-Downstairs Theater
466 Grand Street
Manhattan
www.visionfestival.org or info@visionfestival.org
June 29, The Inspired Word: Passionate Readings of Poetry & Prose in NYC
Organized by Michael Geffner
w/ Soraya Shalforoosh, DubbleX, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Melissa Fadul ,et al
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Tierra Sana Restaurant
100-17 Queens Blvd & 67th Road
Forest Hills (Queens), NY
718-830-0544
September 10, Howl Festival--Poetry Turn On
Team Poetry Project
Other Teams from Bowery Poetry Club, Cave Canem, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and Tribes
8 p.m.
Parish Hall, St. Mark's Church
131 E. 10th Street @2nd Avenue
New York, NY
for tickets & information
http://eastvillagehowler.blogspot.com/2009/08/press-release-howl-arts-project-2009.html
September 12-13, Parachuete: Coney Island Performance Festival
w/ D. Nurkse, Akilah Oliver, Car Benson, Edmund Berrigan, Mathea Harvey, et all
Organized by The Coney Island History Project
Reading on September 12
6:30 p.m.
New York Aquarium Alien Stingers Exhibit (after hours)
Surf Avenue at West 8th Street
Brooklyn, NY
November 5, Cave Canem Workshop Instructors Read
w/ Tara Betts, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Marilyn Nelson and Patricia Smith
The New School, Lang Center Arnhold Hall
6:30 p.m.
55 W. 13th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY
November 12, Poets House
A Reading & Conversation w/ Angela Jackson & Patricia Spears Jones
7 p.m.
10 River Terrace at Murray Street
New York, NY
$10.00/$7.00 (students)
December 3, Black Nature Anthology Launch
w/ Camille Dungy (editor), Cecil Giscombe, devorah major, Indigo Moore
3:30 p.m.
SFSU Poetry Center-HUM 512
Free
8 p.m.
Green Arcade (bookstore)
1680 Market Street (at Gough)
San Francisco, CA
2008
February 26, Barnard College
Women Poets at Barnard
w/ Robin Becker and Jan Heller Levi
Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor, Barnard Hall
3009 Broadway
7 p.m.
Free
Manhattan
212-854-2116 or www.barnard.edu/englihs/wpreadings.html
March 28-30, Medgar Evers College
Black Writers: Reading and Writing to Transform Their Lives and the World,
Ninth National Black Writers Conference
Partipant and Panel Moderator
Brooklyn, NY
Information at The Center for Black Literature
www.mec.cuny.edu/blacklitcenter
April 10, Second Thursday Poetry Series
Women and Family Life Center, Guilford
Solo Reading
96 Fair Street
7:30 p.m.
Guilford, CT
April 23, Broken Land Reading
Word Books
w/ Julia Spicer Kasdorf, Michael Morse and Michael Tyrell
176 Franklin Street
7:30 p.m.
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
718-383-0096 or www.wordbrooklyn.com
May 23, Salon Cocktail Party at The Bowery Poetry Club
Bowery Books Poets w/ Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Kristin Prevallet,
Marjorie Tesser et al
Friday, May 23
308 Bowery
8-10 p.m.
$5.00
June 22-28, Solstice Summer Writers Conference
of Pine Manor College
Faculty Reading, Thursday, June 26
7 p.m.
Chestnut Hill, MA
August 6, Hudson Valley Writers Center
Summer Sunset Series w/ Elaine Sexton
Wednesday, August 6
7:30 p.m.
300 Riverside Drive
Sleepy Hollow, NY
September 27, Poets House and Center for Architecture Symposium
Form and Function: The Intersection of Poetry and Architecture
at Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place
7 p.m. Between Forms: A Poetry Reading
w/ A. S. Bessa, Gregg Biglieri, Brenda Coultas, Susan Mitchell,
Frances Richard, Susan Stewart, Mónica de la Torre & Marjorie Welish
$10.00; $15.00 for entire day
November 9, Zinc Bar Reading Series
W/ Lynn Behrendt, and Thomas Devaney
87 W. Third Street
6:30 p.m.
New York
$5.00
November 16, Bowery Poetry Club
Fifth Wednesday Journal in New York City organized by Vern Miller
w/ Nina Corwin, Rob Cook, Daniel Libman and Said Shirazi
308 Bowery at Bleeker Street
4-6 p.m.
New York
December 5, Center for Book Arts
Curator, Center Broadsides Reading Series
presenting Erica Hunt and Elena Georgiou
28 W. 27th Street
7 p.m.
$10.00
New York
www.centerforbookarts.org or 212-481-02915
2007
February 24, Segue Series
w/ Monica de la Torre
308 Bowery, 4 p.m.
New York City
http://segueseries.blogspot.com
March 13, belladonna* series
w/ Maureen Owen
Dixon Place
258 Bowery, Second Floor, 7 p.m.
New York City
www.belladonnaseries.blogspot.com
March 28, The Poetry Project
Song for New York Poets' Reading
w/ Migdalia Cruz, Maggie Dubris, Karen Kandel and Imelda O'Reilly
131 E. 10th Street, 8 p.m.
New York City
www.poetryproject.com or 212-674-0910
April 5, Lesley University
Alumni Hall
w/ Susan Merrifield and Adelina da Silva
4:30 p.m.
Cambridge, MA
April 20-22, The Arkansas Literary Festival
Book Signings, April 20
Panel/Readings, April 21
w/ Reginald Martin, Ralph Burns, and Sandy Longhorn
The Oxford American Literary Quiz Party
River Market District, Little Rock, Arkansas
www.arkansasliteraryfestival.org
May 16, The Brooklyn Historical Society
Reading for The Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn
w/ Jonathan Galassi, Daniel Hall, Timothy Liu and Alicia Jo Rabins
7 p.m.
Brooklyn
www.brooklynhistory.org or www.poetrysociety.org
May 21, Louder Arts at Bar 13
w/ Hettie Jones and Janine Pommy Vega
Bowery Women Anthology Reading
35 E. 13th Street, 2nd Floor
7 p.m.
Manhattan
www.louderarts.com or 212-979-6677
August 31-September 9, Mabou Mines' Waterfront Celebration
SONG FOR NEW YORK: WHAT WOMEN DO WHEN MEN SIT KNITTING
Gantry Plaza State Park, Long Island City, Queens
6:45 p.m. seating; performances 8 p.m.
FREE
www.maboumines.org or 212-473-0559
October 25-27, The Devil's Kitchen Fall Literary Festival
Poetry Panel, w/ Betty Adcock, et al, Friday, 10 a.m. October 26
Reading w/ Dale Ray Phillips, Saturday 2 p.m. October 27
Student Center Auditorium
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL
http://mfacarbondale.blogspot.com/2007/09/devils-kitchen-fall-literary-festival.html
December 13, Studio Museum in Harlem, Cave Canem
Poetry Meets Art
w/ Roger Bonair-Agard, Samantha Thornhill and Simone White
144 W. 125th Street
7 p.m.
Manhattan
http://www.cavecanempoets.org/pages/calendar.php
December 17, LaMama ETC, Gangs of New York School
Reading hosted by Jeff Wright
w/Monica de la Torre, Bob Hershon, Vincent Katz, Joe Maynard, Ilka Scobie
Adele Ramos and James Best
44 East 4th Street
8 p.m.
$7.00
Manhattan
2006
September 20, 5:30pm
Columbia College Concert Hall
1014 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL
September 25, 8pm, with Dara Weir
The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church
131 E. 10th Street, NYC
212-674-0910
(reception follows)
October 27, 11:15am
The 16th Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Writers Conference
with Major Jackson, Ruth Ellen Kochar, Matthew Shenoda, et al
Black Literature and Creative Writing
Chicago State University Chicago, IL
http://www.csu.edu/GwendolynBrooks/
October 29, 2pm, with Quincy Troupe
Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 East Locust Street Milwaukee, WI
www.woodlandpattern.org
December 4, 7:30 with Matthew Zapruder
Poets Out Loud Reading Series
Fordham University - Lincoln Center
113 West 60th Street (corner Columbus/Ninth Ave.), 12th Floor Lounge
http://poetsoutloud.com
December 17, A Sunday Kind of Love
Busboys and Poets, hosted by Regie Cabico
w/ Derick Brown, et al 4 p.m.
Washington, DC