Women in Independent Publishing: A Library of Hettie Jones Event
About this Event
You are invited to our final Hawthornden Brooklyn in Conversation event in celebration of The Library of Hettie Jones! Come hear women publishers and editors who made 20th century literary history discuss their small press work and the legacy of Hettie Jones's magazine, Yugen.
Hettie Jones was the visionary author of over 20 books of prose and poetry, a publisher and member of the Beat Generation, as well as an educator, editor, and speaker. The Jones family has been incredibly kind in their donation of her personal library to Hawthornden Brooklyn’s Library, and The Library of Hettie Jones show represents work by some of the many artists in her circle of friends, as well as rare books and magazines from her archives. On July 9th, contributors to the collection Women in Independent Publishing: A History of Unsung Innovators 1953-1989, including Lee Ann Brown, Patricia Spears Jones, Susan Sherman, and editor Stephanie Anderson, will discuss their experiences with small press publications and the legacy of Hettie Jones's magazine, Yugen.
Doors open at 6:30 PM. Space is limited. Exact location will be shared via a reminder email two days before the event. You will only receive this email if you RSVP.
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Stephanie Anderson the author of several poetry books and chapbooks, most recently Bearings (DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press) and If You Love Error So Love Zero (Trembling Pillow Press). She is also the editor of Women in Independent Publishing, a book of interviews (University of New Mexico Press), the co-editor of All This Thinking: The Correspondence of Clark Coolidge and Bernadette Mayer (University of New Mexico Press and Eclipse Archive), and a founding editor of Projective Industries (a chapbook press that ran from 2008–2018). Their recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Annulet, Antiphony, Fence Steaming, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. She lives and works in Suzhou, China.
Lee Ann Brown's recent poetry publications include a collaborative book with Bernadette Mayer, Oh You Nameless and Unnamed Ridges (1080press, 2024) available through Asterism Books, and poems in three fold and Ploughshares. She teaches poetry at St. John's University and is a curator of publishing and presenting projects through her Tender Buttons Press and Torn Page in New York City. Recent critical articles include a preface to Harryette Mullen, Her Silver-tongued Companion: Reading Poems by Harryette Mullen, edited by Georgina Colby, (University of Edinburgh Press), and a chapter in Stephanie Anderson's Women in Independent Publishing: A History of Unsung Innovators 1953-1989 (University of New Mexico Press). She recently held a writer's residency at the T.S. Eliot House and has been the Judith E Wilson Poetry Fellow ar the University of Cambridge. She is an active collaborator with the University of Pennsylvania's Poetry Archive Pennsound and is a frequest guest on their Massive Open Online Course "ModPo" and "Poem Talk."
Patricia Spears Jones is an African American poet and cultural activist. She received the 2017 Jackson Poetry Prize and awards from the NEA, NYFA, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. In 2026, she received the Rauschenberg Centennial Prize for Writing. She served as New York State Poet (23-25) and was a Poet Laureate Fellow. Author of The Devil’s Wife Considers, The Beloved Community and A Lucent Fire: New and Selected Poems and two plays for Mabou Mines, the celebrated theater company. Poems are widely anthologized most recently in The Best American Poetry 2023. She edited THINK: Poems for Aretha Franklin’s Inauguration Day Hat and co-edited Ordinary Women: An Anthology of Poetry by New York City Women. She has had residencies at VCCA, Yaddo, the Millay Colony, Rauschenberg Residency, and BAU Institute Residency at Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France. She serves on the board of The Poetry Project, is a Black Earth Institute Emeritus Fellow, and founder/organizer of the American Poets Congress. She received a Doctor of Humane Letters from Hartwick College in 2025. Website: www.psjones.com.
Susan Sherman is a poet, playwright, essayist, and founding editor of IKON magazine, and she has had thirteen plays produced off-off Broadway, including an adaptation from Spanish of Pepe Carril's, Shango de Ima (Doubleday, 1971). She has published seven collections of poetry as well as a highly acclaimed memoir, America’s Child: A Woman’s Journey through the Radical Sixties (Curbstone/Northwestern University Press, 2007). Her new and selected poems, The Light that Puts an End to Dreams, (Wings Press, 2012) was a finalist in the Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Lesbian Poetry Awards. Her latest book is Poetry in Dangerous Times: Two Women/Two Worlds. A Dialogue and Selected Poems in collaboration with Demetria Martinez. Among her many awards are a NYFA fellowship for creative nonfiction, a NYFA Fellowship in poetry and a Puffin Foundation Grant. Website: susansherman.com.
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