Sylvia Jones
Sylvia Jones lives in Baltimore, MD. At the moment, she is an editor for Black Lawrence Press and lectures part-time as an adjunct at Goucher College and George Washington University. She also serves as a reader for the journal Ploughshares. Her recent writing appears in: Smartish Pace, Sprung Formal, Revolute, DIAGRAM, Hopkins Review, Poet Lore, Spilt Milk by the Poetry Society of New York, Shenandoah, and the Cortland Review. She received her
MFA from American University and has received support and fellowship from Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, PEN America, The Emerging Artist Initiative, Poets at the End of The World Collective, Ivy Bookshop, Greedy Reads, The Lesbian.
M.F.A, American University, 2020
Work in Progress - a debut poetry collection dealing with notions of class inequality, the autobiographical lives of objects, generational wealth, hero-worship, and artifacts of the public domain.
June - 2022 “Windfall Room: Poem Recitations in Place”
KCAI: Center Contemporary Practice Kansas City Art Institute
Windfall Room is a poetry publication & archive presenting high-quality video recitations. With each issue, Windfall Room publishes a poet reciting from memory one of their works in a high-quality audio/video
format, filmed in a meaningful location.
May 2022 — “Represent: Writing Inspired by Black Art”
Cleveland Museum of Art + Literary Cleveland, Gartner Auditorium
Readings inspired by the key themes of and the works in Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus, which puts art from the CMA’s permanent collection in conversation with a vanguard of emerging and mid
career Black artists who explore the fundaments of art making, embracing and challenging art history. Reader’s included: Esperanza Cintrón, Madeleine Elaban, Siaara Freeman, Sylvia Jones, Amber Lisa, Ray McNiece, Judith Miles, Kortney Morrow, Elana Pitts, Kathy Price, Zuggie Tate, John White, Kadijah Wingo.
Summer 2021- “Different Strokes/Different Folks: Queer Artists of Color Paint the 21st Century”
LGBTQ Center New York
This exhibition of works by LGBTQ+ BIPOC artists explore the intersections of gender and queerness, along with the interplay of race, class, ability, religion, sex, and sexuality—all against the backdrop of an organization that was founded at the height of, and in response to, the AIDS epidemic.
Sprung Formal (May 2023)
"Mouse Wars"
"Another Violent Inflection Point"
“Because the idea of having kids.."
Capitol Letters (April 2023)
"Contrary to Popular beliefs I have my hurts"
Smartish Pace (2023)
“Bob Kaufman like Tendencies"
"Generational Conflict"
Mountaineer Books, Campfire Stories: Vol. II (April 2023)
"Signs of wildlife"
Cortland Review (Oct 2022)
"Off the Backwoods' Cherry"
"Don Draper Demonstrates in his Clogs”
Poet Lore (Winter 2022)
"On the tiniest of budgets"
The Hopkins Review (Spring 2022)
“First black cop bop""
“Perpetual resin""
Shenandoah (Winter 2021)
“Man with shotgun and alien”
“Tender-headed”
DIAGRAM 20.4 (August 2019)
“Of two minds”
The Poetry Society of New York (Aug 2019)
“On a line Wojahn”
“Turning the head of a rake on its side""
The Santa Clara Review (Fall 2018)
"Fast backwards""
Ponder Review (Winter 2019)
"Straight people are the reason I can't read”
Revolute (March 2022)
Book review of "The World to Come'’ by David Keplinger
Shenandoah (Spring 2022)
Editor’s Note, for “Shenandoah: Vol.1. 2”
Free State Review (Feb 2022)
Craft essay, “On voice/ Persona: Fictive dots sliding across the Sun”