blackbird spring 2002 vol.1 no. 1

NONFICTION


RODNEY JONES

A Conversation with Rodney Jones

On March 29, 2006, poet Rodney Jones met with students and faculty of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Virginia Commonwealth University and talked about his life as a poet, teacher, and reader. Jones had come to Richmond to give a reading at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts as part of Poetic Principles, a series sponsored by the Virginia Museum and New Virginia Review, Inc., that brings to the Richmond area the best poets, writers, critics, and translators at work today.