The
Hudson Valley Writers' Center is pleased to present poets
Patricia Spears Jones
Elaine Sexton
Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 7:30 pm
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The
Hudson Valley Writers' Center is pleased to present poets
Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 7:30 pm |
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Elaine Sexton is the author of two collections of poems: Causeway (2008), and Sleuth (2003), both from New Issues Press (Western Michigan University). Her poems, art reviews, and essays have appeared in numerous journals including American Poetry Review, Art in America, ARTnews, Poetry, Massachusetts Review, and O, The Oprah Magazine. Her work has been featured on Poetry Daily and many blogs and online sites. She teaches a poetry workshop at the Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute, most recently a seminar with a special focus on the chapbook. She lives in New York City, where she works in magazine publishing.
The reading will include a question & answer period and a reception with books by the author(s) for sale.
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Programs and events at The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center are made possible, in part, by grants from the Bydale Foundation, the David G. Taft Foundation, the Orchard Foundation, and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and by the Basic Program Support Grant of the Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government. |
Patricia
Spears Jones is the author of two poetry collections: Femme du
Monde (Tia Chucha Press) and The Weather That Kills (Coffee
House Press) and two chapbooks, Repuestas! and Mythologizing
Always. She is co-editor of the 
ground-breaking,
multi-cultural anthology, Ordinary Women: Poems by New York City Women
with Fay Chiang, Sandra Maria Esteves and Sara Miles. Her poems are anthologized
in broken land: Poems of Brooklyn, bum rush-the page, a defpoetry
jam, Best American Poetry 2000, and elsewhere in print and
on the web. In 1994, her play Mother was commissioned and produced
by Mabou Mines, the internationally acclaimed theater collective, and
a second collaboration with Mabou, Song for New York: What Women Do
When Men Sit Knitting, with composer Lisa Gutkin and four other poets,
was performed in New York last year. Spears Jones has received fellowships
to Bread Loaf, the Millay Colony, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, the
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yaddo. She is a recipient of
awards from the National Endowment for Arts, New York Foundation for the
Arts, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Goethe Institute. She
has taught at Pine Manor College; the Poetry Project at St. Marks Church;
Parsons School of Design, New School University; Sarah Lawrence College;
Naropa University and for Cave Canem. Born and raised in Arkansas, Spears
Jones has lived in New York City since the mid-1970s.