This four-week series is a great way to dig deeper in your yoga practice, add clarity to your thoughts, energize your creativity and unblock your voice. Yoga Instructor Lisa Pineda and Jacqueline Jones LaMon are teaming up to offer you a new writing prompt and discussion each week.

Classes will be held February 24, March 3, 10, and 17; 5:45-6:45 p.m. Please drop me a note for more information!

Poets from the anthology, Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism will come together for a special reading at the historic Langston Hughes House.

Stay tuned--more details to come!

Join me at the 14th National Black Writers Conference (NBWC), which will be held at Medgar Evers College from March 22 to March 25, 2018.  This year, the conference theme is “Gathering at the Waters: Healing, Legacy, and Activism in Black Literature.”

Please join us in celebrating the publication of Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism (OR Books) with readings by Jacqueline Jones LaMon, Mahogany Browne, Dorothea Lasky, Safia Elhillo, and more.  Refreshments will be served.

Join us for an extraordinary line up of Cave Canem poets!  

Free and open to the public.

F220.  The World Turned Upside Down: Hamilton, An American Musical.  (Judith Baumel, Jacqueline Jones LaMon, Victorio Reyes, Stephen O'Connor) The smash Broadway hit Hamilton has been rightly called a game changer. Borrowing from Charles Chesnutt, Lin-Manuel Miranda uses the world turned upside down as an image for the revolution, reversal, and subversion of political and artistic norms. Here, in the capital city, which Hamilton envisioned, Martha Southgate will introduce poets, fiction writers, and playwrights who discuss what’s new and what’s old in the show—its hip-hop poetics, music/ lyric sampling, imagery, narrative, staging, and more.

Room 102B: Washington Convention Center, Level One

Our evening begins with readings and conversations from 2016 Sula's Room fellows Shahnaz Habib, Mira Jacob, Danielle Jackson and Jacqueline Jones LaMon.  Readings will be followed by a short panel discussion on failure, invisibility, and tips for navigating the literary matrix.

Sponsored by Well-Read Black Girl, a Brooklyn-based book club and digital platform, and Sula's Room, a literary service organization that supports New York-based women writers of color through residencies and community-oriented programming.

Free and Open to the Public: Liberty Hall

Less is More...Or Maybe Not: Writers on Exaggeration and Understatement

Poet Jacqueline Jones LaMon (Last Seen) and novelist Andrew Lewis Conn (O, Africa!) consider the ways in which exaggeration and understatement enhance storytelling. Speaking as writers, they share the joys and hazards of pushing language, imagery and narrative to the limits. As readers, they share favorite moments in the works of others: skillful use of repetition, caricature, parody; effective use of stripped-down language, imagery that cloaks and suggests rather than tells, and more. Q&A moderated by Barnes & Noble's Stacy Leigh.

An exciting reading between Cave Canem Foundation, Inc. and Belladonna* Collaborative!  Free and open to the public.

A reading and conversation with Marilyn Nance and Jacqueline Jones LaMon, curated and hosted by Patricia Spears Jones!  

Lorca tells us that the artist is possessed by duende, a malign spirit that burns the blood like powdered glass. This panel (Oliver de la Paz, Sandra Beasley, Mahogany Brown, Jacqueline Jones LaMon, and Danielle Barnhart) asks if poets can or should summon duende at will. Is it fleeting and ephemeral, or can it be harnessed as an instrument of craft? Five poets who have written about and with duende share their experiences invoking the dark, elusive creative force. We promise fiery exchanges on this evocative subject.

Barnes & Noble Presents: A Way to Remember and to Forget: Writing as Recall and Release

It is easy to think of writers as harnessing personal experiences and putting them to work for their craft. Memory and experience, however, can prove powerful, tricky--more to be navigated or negotiated than simply used. Authors Jacqueline Jones LaMon, Hirsh Sawhney and Jonathan Corcoran share how personal recollection has enriched their writing.

Hosted by Patricia Spears Jones

Join us for poems, refreshments, and a bit of conversation!

A interdisciplinary reading series held on the last Saturday of the month.

It's lively.  It's fun.  You'll like it.

6 p.m.        Hangout

7 p.m.        Reading

8:30 p.m.   Dance Party

"Second Acts: Creative Writing as a Second Career" --Panel, Bridgett M. Davis, Moderator

Details TBA

Please join me for a reading of works-in-progress, followed by a reception.

JAZZ VESPERS

Toli Nameless  (trombone/voice/percussion)

Tecla Esposito  (keys/voice)

Aissa Arorryo-Hill  (voice/guitar/programming)

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Jacqueline Jones LaMon  (poetry)

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All are welcome to attend.  Doors open at 4:00 p.m.  No reservations are required.  Free-will offering.