Patricia Spears Jones will be on the Penn State Altoona campus to read from her work on Tuesday, October 11, 2016.  Her visit is sponsored by the Visiting Writers Committee and the English Program. The reading will take place at 12:05 pm in the Titelman Study of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts.

Spears Jones is a Brooklyn-based African American poet and author of eight poetry collections and chapbooks including A Lucent Fire: New and Selected Poems, which is a 2016 finalist for the William Carlos Williams Prize from the Poetry Society of America and for the Paterson Poetry Prize.

More information can be found at: Penn State Altoona News- Patricia Spears Jones