Overhear Poetry Reading

Patricia Spears Jones is a Black American poet and cultural activist who received the 2017

Jackson Poetry Prize and is former New York State Poet (23-25). She is author of The Devil’s

Wife Considers, The Beloved Community and nine other poetry collections, and two plays

commissioned by Mabou Mines. She edited THINK: Poems for Aretha Franklin Inauguration

Day Hat and Ordinary Women: An Anthology of New York City Women Poets. She serves on The

Poetry Project board. She is founder of American Poets Congress, a Senior Fellow Emeritus for