{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"27 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"11.08 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"20 computer files", "unit"=>"computer_files"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"21.4 megabytes", "unit"=>"megabytes"}]}
{"value"=>"<p>This series, dating from the 1970s to the 2010s, is comprised of materials related to Jones' career as a poet, writer, playwright, editor, and publisher. Most of the material depicts Jones' efforts to publish and promote her poetry. Correspondence regarding publishing poems, applications for grant funds and residencies, annotated and revised poems, and ephemera from poetry readings and interviews are well represented in the series. Professional and personal correspondence often overlaps, because Jones' personal and professional lives are interwoven.</p> <p>Jones' growth as a poet and activist appears in the progression of her poetry's content and form. The revised manuscripts and poems from Jones' full-length volumes of poetry, <span class=\"title\">The Weather That Kills</span> (1995), <span class=\"title\">Femme du Monde</span> (2006), and <span class=\"title\">PainKiller</span> (2010), as well as poems from her chapbooks, <span class=\"title\">Mythologizing Always: 7 Sonnets</span> (1981), <span class=\"title\">Swimming to America</span> (2011), <span class=\"title\">Living in the Love Economy</span> (2014), and the collection, <span class=\"title\">A Lucent Fire: New and Select Poems</span> (2015) impart this growth. Of note are the correspondence, poems, and manuscript of <span class=\"title\">Key of Permanent Blue</span> (1993), the precursor to <span class=\"title\">The Weather That Kills</span>. Jones' labor to publish <span class=\"title\">Femme du Monde</span> is detailed through correspondence with various publishers; poem revisions and annotations; drafts of the volume; drafts of the publishing contract; and ephemera associated with the volume's release and promotion.</p> <p>Lynda Hull, David Rivard, and Mark Doty were Jones' advisors when she was a graduate student at Vermont College of Norwich University. She maintained all of their letters and feedback from her graduate years, as well as correspondence, course materials, notebooks, poems, newsletters, and copies of her thesis.</p> <p>Jones' grants and fellowships to Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Millay Colony, Yaddo, and Virginia Center for Creative Arts are exhibited in correspondence and ephemera from her residencies. She retained correspondence, programs, flyers, and brochures from her work as a panelist, moderator, and/or speaker at various events such as literary conferences, workshops, and festivals. Jones participated in many local and national interviews about poetry and art that are represented in sound recordings. There are other interviews that Jones conducted with artists and poets, such as June Jordan, for essays that she wrote for various magazines.</p> <p>Jones kept correspondence, biographical notes, poems, and ephemera affiliated with the publication and twenty-five-year celebration of <span class=\"title\">Ordinary Women</span> (1978). The <span class=\"title\">Ordinary Women</span> correspondence includes letters to and from the contributors to the anthology, such as Akua Lezli Hope, Helen Wong Huie, and Frances Chung, as well as Adrienne Rich, who wrote the introduction.</p> <p>The series also takes account of Jones' work as a writer and playwright. It features essays and popular culture reviews that Jones wrote for <span class=\"title\">Bomb Magazine</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Village Voice</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Essence Magazine</span>. Jones preserved notes, a video recording, press clippings, programs, and drafts of the Mabou Mines commissioned play, <span class=\"title\">Mother</span> (1994). Jones' collaboration on other creative projects, such as the performance piece, <span class=\"title\">Women in Research</span> (1980), and Mabou Mines site-specific work, <span class=\"title\">Song for New York</span> (2007) are also rendered in the series.</p>"}