An Evening with New York State Poet Patricia Spears Jones

Name: An Evening with New York State Poet Patricia Spears Jones
Start: 2024-09-26T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-09-26T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library

Schedule

Thu Sep 26 2024 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library | Astoria, NY

About this event
IN-PERSON
Join us for an evening of readings and conversation with New York State Poet Laureate Patricia Spears Jones. Jones is a poet, playwright, educator, and cultural activist. Winner of the 2017 Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers, her most recent book The Beloved Community was released in 2023. Jones's archives are housed in the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books division at Schomburg Center. The evening will explore the evolution of her writing, the necessity of personal archives to shape one's legacy, and the use of archives to develop new material. This is an official 2024 Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend event.
GET THE BOOK
Copies of The Beloved Community and A Lucent Fire by Patricia Spears Jones will be available for purchase from the Schomburg Shop in Harlem. https://schomburgshop.com
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
FIRST COME, FIRST SEATED Events are free and open to all, but due to space constraints registration is requested. Registered guests are given priority check-in 15 to 30 minutes before start time. After the event starts all registered seats are released regardless of registration, so we recommend that you arrive early.
GUESTS Please note that holding seats in the Langston Hughes Auditorium is strictly prohibited and there is no food or drinks allowed anywhere in the Schomburg Center.
E-TRANSPORTATION NYPL policy prohibits electric transportation devices (e.g., motorbikes, e-bikes, e-scooters, e-skateboards) from being brought into or stored at library sites for any length of time, as this is the best way to keep our spaces & people safe.
AUDIO/VIDEO RECORDING Programs are photographed and recorded by the Schomburg Center. Attending this event indicates your consent to being filmed/photographed and your consent to the use of your recorded image for any all purposes of the New York Public Library.
PRESS Please send all press inquiries (photo, video, interviews, audio-recording, etc) at least 24-hours before the day of the program to Leah Drayton at [email protected].
Please note that professional video recordings are prohibited without expressed consent.
PUBLIC NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER
IN-PERSON | By registering for this event, you are acknowledging that an inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public place where people are present. By attending an in-person program at The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, you voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19 and agree not to hold The New York Public Library, its Trustees, officers, agent and employees liable for any illness or injury. If you have symptoms consistent with COVID-19 or suspect you have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive, please stay home.
Assistive Listening and ASL
ASL interpretation and real-time (CART) captioning available upon request. Please submit your request at least two weeks in advance by emailing [email protected].