Patricia Spears Jones

Patricia Spears Jones is the author of five books of poetry, including Painkiller , Femme du Monde , and The Weather That Kills . Her work has been featured in numerous anthologies, including Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry , Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama's First 100 Days , Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry , and Best American Poetry . She has taught at LaGuardia Community College and Queens College CCNY, Parsons,...See more

Patricia Spears Jones is the author of five books of poetry, including Painkiller , Femme du Monde , and The Weather That Kills . Her work has been featured in numerous anthologies, including Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry , Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama's First 100 Days , Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry , and Best American Poetry . She has taught at LaGuardia Community College and Queens College CCNY, Parsons, The New School, and the College of New Rochelle. See less