Sylvia Jones
Sylvia Jones
Adjunct Faculty
Contact:
Phillips Hall
Sylvia Jones serves as a lecturer in creative writing at George Washington University, she also works as an adjunct professor for Goucher College and the Goucher Prison Education Partnership. She also works as an editor for Black Lawrence Press and intermittently serves as a reader for Emerson’s journal, Ploughshares. She has received fellowship and support from the Peaked Hill Trust; Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts; Topical Cream; Jack Straw Cultural Center; OUTWrite DC; Poets at the End of World Collective; Literary Cleveland; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Bucknell University, where she was a 021-22 Stadler Fellow. She is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection Television Fathers Meekling Press, 2024)
M.F.A, American University, 2020
Television Fathers (Meekling Press, 2024) — debut poetry collection dealing with notions of class inequality, the autobiographical lives of objects, generational wealth, hero-worship, and artifacts of the public domain.
July 2022 — Mountaineer Books / Everglades National Park, Florida
“Campfire Stories Volume II: Tales from America’s National Parks and Trails”
The writing produced during that trip went on to be published in, Campfire Stories Volume II: Tales from America’s National Parks and Trails, it’s the second of two outdoors-themed anthologies. Edited by David
and Ilyssa Kyu. Published by Mountaineer Books. As a contributing writer, over the course of my stay in Florida I drew from my own lived experiences and other personal insights, related to the park.
June - 2022 — KCAI: Center Contemporary Practice Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri
“Windfall Room: Poem Recitations in Place”
Windfall Room is a poetry publication & archive presenting high-quality video recitations. Each issue of Windfall Room features a poet reciting from memory a poem
of theirs, in audio/video format, recorded and filmed in a meaningful location. The poem recited here first appeared in Spilt Milk, from The Poetry Society of New York
R&R Journal (December 2023)
"Affirmative Action"
"Getting priced out of the zeitgeist"
"Good propaganda involves real people"
Smartish Pace (Summer 2023)
“Bob Kaufman like Tendencies"
"Generational Conflict"
Sprung Formal #18 (May 2023)
"Another Violent Inflection Point"
"Because the idea of having kids is much older than mass shootings”
Poet Lore (Spring 2022)
"On the tiniest of budgets"
Shenandoah (Winter 2021)
“Man with shotgun and alien”
“Tender-headed”
DIAGRAM 20.4 (August 2019)
“Of two minds”
The Hopkins Review (Spring 2022)
“First black cop bop"
“Perpetual resin”
Television Fathers, Meekling Press (October 2024)