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A Conversation With Hettie Jones

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By Mom Egg Review on May 9, 2011 Interviews

A Conversation with Hettie Jones for The Mom Egg, May 2011

Interview by Marjorie Tesser

Part 1

– In this segment, Jones discusses independence and community, growing up in the 1950’s, the beat years, feminism and more. Segment 1 of 4

A Conversation With Hettie Jones, Part 1 from Marjorie Tesser on Vimeo.

 

A Conversation with Hettie Jones Part 2

In this segment, Hettie speaks about raising daughters, work, writing, revision and more.

Hettie Jones Part 2 from Marjorie Tesser on Vimeo.

A Conversation with Hettie Jones, Part 3

In this segment of her interview for The Mom Egg, Hettie Jones talks about her most recent book of poetry, Doing Seventy, and upcoming projects.

Hettie Jones Part 3 from Marjorie Tesser on Vimeo.

A Conversation With Hettie Jones, Part 4

In this final segment of A Conversation With Hettie Jones for The Mom Egg, Hettie Jones reads and discusses her poem “Having Been Her,” from her early chapbook of the same name.

Hettie Jones Part 4 (Poem) from Marjorie Tesser on Vimeo.

Hettie Jones

Hettie Jones is a poet and prose writer, author of How I Became Hettie Jones, a memoir of the “beat scene” of the fifties and sixties, published originally in 1990, and since 1996 available in paperback from Grove Press. Jones’s short prose has been published in journals such as Fence and Ploughshares, and she has also written numerous books for children and young adults, including the award-winning Big Star Fallin’ Mama (Five Women in Black Music) and The Trees Stand Shining (Poetry of the North American Indians).

In 1998 Jones’s poetry collection, Drive, was issued by Hanging Loose Press. Hailed as the work of a “potent and fearless poet” (Booklist), with “a good mind and sound ideas” (Independent Publisher) and “the gift to paint with vivid words and to cloak her wit with images that linger in the mind long after the reading” (Midwest Book Review), Drive won the Poetry Society of America’s 1999 Norma Farber First Book Award. Jones’s second collection, All Told, was published in 2003; the Publishers Weekly review mentions her “knowing urban wit” and her “acute compassion and humor”; the Booklist review cites the book as “rock-solid.” Her third collection, Doing 70, appeared in 2007; Booklist mentions “delightfully quirky insight,” “sharp wit,” and “”biting but brief political commentary,” and Marie Ponsot writes in Commonweal, “tuneful poems…centered and engaged….I know of no other poet’s voice so at ease in welcoming the fact that we are all people of color, “looking/for bread but asking/ for roses.”

Jones teaches currently in the Graduate Writing Program of the New School and at the 92nd St. Y Poetry Center. She is the former Chair of the PEN Prison Writing Committee, and from 1989-2002 ran a writing workshop at the New York State Correctional Facility for Women at Bedford Hills, from which she published a nationally distributed collection, Aliens At The Border. From 1994-1996 she was a member of the Literature Panel of the New York State Council on the Arts, served two terms on the Board of Directors of Cave Canem, an organization in support of young African American poets, and is currently a member of PEN’s Advisory Council. Jones was a NYFA fellow in nonfiction literature in 2009.

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