Live! Thorsson and Jones
Join One Book One Bronx when we welcome Courtney Thorsson and Patricia Spears Jones
• Courtney Thorsson, author of The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture, will join us on Zoom on Tuesday, 12/16, 7pm. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
• Saturday, 12-1:30pm, 12/20, poet Patricia Spears Jones, an original member of "The Sisterhood," will join the conversation, in person, at The Bronx Museum, 1040 Grand Concourse at 165th St. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
One Sunday afternoon in February 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan’s Brooklyn apartment to eat gumbo, drink champagne, and talk about their work. Calling themselves “The Sisterhood,” the group—which also came to include Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, Margo Jefferson, and others—would get together once a month over the next two years, creating a vital space for Black women to discuss literature and liberation.
Courtney Thorsson teaches, studies, and writes about African American literature at the University of Oregon, where she is a Professor of English and a Faculty Fellow in the Clark Honors College. She is the author of Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women's Novels and essays in Callaloo, African American Review, MELUS, Gastronomica, Contemporary Literature, Legacy, and Public Books.
Patricia Spears Jones is a poet, playwright, educator, cultural activist, anthologist, and recipient of 2017 Jackson Poetry Prize and is author of A Lucent Fire New and Selected Poems and three full-length collections and five chapbooks. The Beloved Community is from Copper Canyon. She co-edited the groundbreaking anthology, Ordinary Women: An Anthology of New York City Women (1978) and organized and edited THINK: Poems for Aretha Franklin’s Inauguration Day Hat (2009). Her poems are widely anthologized most recently in African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle.
