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Smalljones aka Paul Jones
@smalljones.bsky.social
No longer a person of interest.
@smalljones on most social networks.
Something Wonderful (2021), Something Necessary (2024)
Recent publications: smalljones.com
No! I'm right here!
November 1, 2025 at 9:09 PM
November 1, 2025 at 12:22 AM
October 9, 2025 at 12:44 AM
August 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
August 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
ATTN PiPS Poets! The Mountains are calling! This Saturday in Boone. Contact Hilda Downer and let her know you are coming.
June 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Today Sunday April 27th at BowBarr on Rosemary St Carrboro/Chapel Hill, the final Set Free Poetry Reading with Chad Knuth, Em Gee, and @smalljones.bsky.social Paul Jones and you at the open mic.
April 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Tonight at Waterbean Poetry Night at the Mic in Huntersville, NC at 7 pm
Liza Wolff Francis and Paul Jones @smalljones.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Coming to Huntersville NC at the Water Bean
Wednesday 3/26 at 7 pm!
@smalljones and @lizawolfffrancis
March 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Coming to Huntersville, NC for the @waterbeanpoetry Series
@lizawolfffrancis and @smalljones.bsky.social
7 pm Wednesday March 26
March 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I'll be in Asheville
-March 4th at @malapropsbookstore for Poetquatro
-May 2 - 4 at @writingeststate NC Writers Conference
-October 28th at @floodgallery

www.malaprops.com/event/hybrid...

www.ncwriters.org/programs/con...

floodgallery.org
February 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Tonight, Wednesday February 12 at 6 pm at Fair Game Beverage in Pittsboro, NC
@smalljones.bsky.social with Gary Phillips, Nora Myer, Debra Kaufman, Ralph Earle, and @neilhilborn.bsky.social
February 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Sunday it will be 50 F in Town of Pittsboro, NC

Coming Sunday January 26 at 2 pm to McIntyre's Books in Fearrington Village -- North Carolina Poetry Society reading series with Anna Lewis, M Scott Douglass, and Paul Jones @smalljones.bsky.social
See you there.
January 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Due to the winter storm making roads unsafe for travel throughout the NC Piedmont and beyond, tomorrow’s Waterbean Poetry Night event
With Liza Wolff Francis & Paul Jones @smalljones are now RESCHEDULED to feature on MARCH 26! We will have our special poetry of resistance open mic on that date
January 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
What a day to pull out of the Climate Treaty
Snow continuing
January 22, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Current status
January 22, 2025 at 1:06 AM
It'll be a cold night, but the poetry will be occasionally tropical and often topical.
Join Liza wolff-francis and @smalljones.bsky.social at the Waterbean in Huntersville, NC Wednesday at 7 pm.
January 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Soliloquy By a Parachute Jumper
-Mary E. Bulkley

We so not know how tall was Newton's tree
From which fell Newton's apple,
Whence he drew laws to work infallibly.

Now, I'm that apple, falling full miles five
Instead of full five feet.
[...]

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
January 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Read the book 10 years ago. Should I see the movie?
December 4, 2024 at 11:32 PM
Read the book 10 years ago. Should I see the movie?
December 4, 2024 at 11:30 PM
December brings the Saint of Trees to Asheville, Boone, Burnsville, Charlotte, Durham, Greensboro, Hendersonville, Hickory, Monroe, Raleigh, Sparta, Waxhaw, and Winston-Salem as part of @ncpoetrysociety's Poetry in Plain Sight program.

List of possible sites: www.NCpoetrysociety.org/pips
December 3, 2024 at 5:16 PM
His poetry is good,--but a little dark
--Edward Koren in @newyorker

media.newyorker.com/cartoons/673...
November 28, 2024 at 3:35 AM
Current status
November 23, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Thanks Redhawk Publications for nominating Something Necessary for a 2025 #pushcartprize
I'm a little bananas over this.
November 21, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Today's Prompt
November 19, 2024 at 7:42 PM