Patricia Spears Jones: Recent and Upcoming Events
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
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, w/ Derrick W. Brown 4
p.m.
Busboys and Poets, hosted by Regie Cabico
Washington, DC