Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 23.42 linear feet (57 boxes); 21.4 megabytes (20 computer files)

Summary

1. Patricia Spears Jones (born in 1951 in Forrest City, Arkansas) is a Black American poet, playwright, writer, educator, editor, and publisher. Her papers date from the 1970s to the 2010s, and chronicle Jones' career and personal life through correspondence; publishing contracts; drafts of poems; notebooks; ephemera; interviews; press clippings; photographs; and recorded poetry readings and performances. The collection illuminates her development as a social justice and environmental activist through her work as a poet, educator, volunteer, and non-profit development officer and administrator.

Subject

1. Heresies Collective, Inc
2. Mabou Mines (Theater group)
3. New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, N.Y.)
4. New York Foundation for the Arts
5. New York State Council on the Arts
6. Squaw Valley Community of Writers
7. St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery (New York, N.Y.). Poetry Project
8. Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
9. Yaddo (Artists' colony)
10. African American women poets
11. African American women political activists
12. African Americans > Poetry
13. Environmentalists
14. Feminism and art
15. Feminist poetry
16. Social justice

Genre/Form

1. Correspondence.
2. Fliers (Ephemera)
3. Manuscripts for publication.
4. Notebooks.
5. Photographs.
6. Programs (Publications)
7. Sound recordings.
8. Video recordings.

Call number

1. Sc MG 975

Access (note)

1. Sound and video recordings transferred to the Moving Image and Recorded Sound (MIRS) Division: audio and moving image materials. For more information, please contact the division at schomburgaudiovisual@nypl.org or 212-491-2270.

Source (note)

1. Purchased from Patricia Spears Jones in 2021.

Author

1. Jones, Patricia Spears, 1955- creator.

Title

1. Patricia Spears Jones papers.

Production

1. 1970s-2010s.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated
2. computer

Type of carrier

1. sheet
2. other

Restricted access

1. Sound and video recordings transferred to the Moving Image and Recorded Sound (MIRS) Division: audio and moving image materials. For more information, please contact the division at schomburgaudiovisual@nypl.org or 212-491-2270.

Location of other archival materials

1. Materials Separated from the Resource: Audio and moving image materials were separated from the papers and transferred to The Schomburg Center's Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Source

1. Purchased from Patricia Spears Jones in 2021.

Connect to:

1. Finding aid

Occupation

1. Authors.
2. Educators.
3. Poets.

Research call number

1. Sc MG 975