Skip to main content

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

5:00 pm

State Author (Me) & State Poet (Patricia Spears Jones) Celebrating Our Journey

15 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217

So it's my last year as New York State Author. (Some people didn't even know I held this role.) Patricia Spears Jones is New York State Poet. Come hear us talk about what these roles have meant to us and so much more.

Purchase tickets online: Click here to purchase tickets

State Author Me amp State Poet Patricia Spears Jones Celebrating Our Journey

export this event to my calendar

Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson is an American writer of books for adults, children, and adolescents. She is best known for her National Book Award-Winning memoir Brown Girl Dreaming, and her Newbery Honor-winning titles After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way. Her picture books The Day You Begin and The Year We Learned to Fly were NY Times Bestsellers. After serving as the Young People’s Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017, she was named the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature by the Library of Congress for 2018–19. She was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2020. Later that same year, she was named a MacArthur Fellow.