Forthcoming

Morning Song

You wake up to the phrase “salt lick”

You realize you know not one thing

About salt licks—you know salt

And lick  but together? How does

The salt lick lick salt?

 

You know you are moving

To the land of word games

Or musical instruments

Unstrung, battered—too much play

 

Each day the gleaners walk side walks

In search of bottles. They separate

Already separated bags to find precious

Glass, that is plastic. They hate the cans

 

They know the places where beer

Overwhelms soda; where huge milk

Cartons say children, many children

Live here. They do not whistle when they

 

Work. They do not lick sweat

Off tired arms. They go about

The business of poverty with grace

And noise. Early morning dragging

The weight of others waste.

forthcoming in Tribes anthology with art work by Yuko Otomo

 

POEMS/REVIEWS/REPORTS/INTERVIEWS LINKS LINKS LINKS

FEATURES/COMMENTARY/INTERVIEWS/VIDEOS/AUDIOS

 

https://livestream.com/schomburgcenter/events/8346932

http://www.villagevoice.com/arts/the-poetry-project-s-half-century-of-dissent-9453827

http://www.aroundaboutproject.com/purple.html  podcast on the color Purple

https://soundcloud.com/brooklynpoets/yawpcast-8816 https://www.poetryproject.org/publications/246/

http://chrisricecoohttps://soundcloud.com/brooklynpoets/yawpcast-8816per.blogspot.com/2016/08/poet-

patricia-spears-jones-on-lucent.html http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/patricia-spears-jones#poet

http://newsreel.org/guides/Furious-Flower-III-Index.pdf*  https://vimeo.com/136651928

http://ottermagazine.com/article/interview-with-patricia-spears-jones-by-lewis-warsh/

http://www.gwarlingo.com/2013/the-sunday-poem-patricia-spears-jones/

http://www.litbridge.com/2013/03/06/patricia-spears-jones-next-big-thing-interview/

http://poetry.about.com/od/poetryhistory/a/yearreview2006_3.htm

http://www.newpages.com/magazinestand/litmags/default.htm

http://womensvoicesforchange.org/poetry-friday-interview-with-patricia-spears- jones.htm

*California Newsreel documentary for Furious Flower Conference, 2014

**POETRY BLOGS/ARTIST COLLABORATIONS/COMMISSIONS

http://eepurl.com/cfETxj http://www.92y.org/wordswelivein/featured/week-7

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/author/psjones

http://www.boscarol.com/nina/html/manual/poesia.html www.sandrapayne.com

**REVIEWS OF MY WORK

http://arkreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/47.3-Dec-2016-br-color.pdf

http://labloga.blogspot.com/2016/01/a-lucent-fire-new-selected-poems-book.html

http://bombmagazine.org/article/3524121/patricia-spears-jones-s-em-a-lucent-fire-em https://www.poetryproject.org/publications/246/

http://galatearesurrection3.blogspot.com/ http://galatearesurrection3.blogspot.com/2006/08/femme-du-monde-by-patricia- spears.html

http://www.backstage.com/bso/news_reviews/nyc/review_display.jspvnu_content_id=1003637080&imw=Y http://tinycatpants.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/the-true-treat-of-the-new-oa.

http://foggedclarity.com/2011/01/review-patricia-spears-jones-painkiller/. http://my3000lovingarms.blogspot.com/2010/11/patricia-spears-jones- painkiller.html

*****POEMS

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/30/seraphim

Firsts: A blessing, a question

http://www.brooklynrail.org/2013/05/poetry/two-jones

http://www.poets.org/ http://eoagh.com/?p=1770

http://www.connotationpress.com/a-poetry-congeries-with-john-hoppenthaler/october- 2012/1569-patricia-spears-jones-poetry

http://blogthisrock.blogspot.com/2010/12/poem-of-week-patricia-spears-jones.html http://womensvoicesforchange.org/poetry-friday-patricia-spears-jones.htm

http://www.naropa.edu/notenoughnight/ http://jacketmagazine.com/32/holiday-album.shtml http://www.prezidentka.cz/prezidentky.php? article=379&PHPSESSID=96f432d97182df94150159b62e697599 www.brooklynrail.org/2007/10/poetry/the-brooklyn-song

http://www.poems.com/femmejon.htm

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/ris/archive2008.html http://www.poetz.com/2003/psjones.htm

 

**ESSAYS/REVIEWS

http://www.rhondaschaller.com/articles-2.php

http://www.tribes.org/cgi-bin/form.pl?kauthor=719 http://www.tribes.org/web/2009/01/01/review-of-toni-morrisons-a-mercy http://www.tribes.org/web/2014/04/28/carrie-mae-weems-review-via-patricia-spears-jones/