{"id":3570,"date":"2011-11-04T08:11:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T13:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?page_id=3570"},"modified":"2025-04-14T13:55:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T18:55:40","slug":"about-paul-jones","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/about-paul-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"About Paul Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Brief Literary Bio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paul Jones has published poetry in many journals including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poetrymagazine\/poems\/38656\/better-tomorrow\">Poetry<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hudsonreview.com\/2022\/10\/geode\/#.Y2lfGBBOm-r\">Hudson Review,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.riverheronreview.com\/pfn-paul-jones\">River Heron Review<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadkillreview.com\/post\/betty-s-current-status-by-paul-jones\">Broadkill Review<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nclr.ecu.edu\/search.html?cx=014641569174408272656%3Aq29dnevvhho&amp;cof=FORID%3A10&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=Paul+Jones&amp;sa=Search\">North Carolina Literary Review<\/a> as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/new-nea-pub-list.html\"> in cookbooks, in travel anthologies, in collections about passion, love,<\/a> and in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/2543562.The_Best_American_Erotic_Poems\">The Best American Erotic Poems: 1800 &#8211; Present.<\/a> Recently, he was nominated for several Pushcart Prizes and several Best of the Web Awards. His chapbook is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/poetry\/\">What the Welsh and Chinese Have in Common.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.archmission.org\/spaceil\"> A manuscript of his poems crashed on the moon\u2019s surface in 2019.<\/a><br \/>\nHis books, <a href=\"https:\/\/redhawkpublications.com\/Something-Necessary-Poems-p683522697\">Something Necessary,<\/a> (2024) and <a href=\"https:\/\/redhawkpublications.com\/Something-Wonderful-p401948789\">Something Wonderful,<\/a> (2021) are available from <a href=\"https:\/\/redhawkpublications.com\/\">RedHawk Publications<\/a> (and your favorite bookstore).<br \/>\nIn November 2021, Jones was inducted into <a href=\"https:\/\/ncsucsc.touchpros.com\/Detail.aspx?type=Athletes&amp;searchBy=LastName&amp;searchQuery=J&amp;Id=323899&amp;page=0&amp;tabid=821&amp;nav=simple&amp;donor_search=Sports\">the NC State Computer Science Hall of Fame.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jones is a member of the Carrboro Poets Council<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, Jones joined the Board of the Friends of Weymouth who help manage <a href=\"https:\/\/weymouthcenter.org\/\">the Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/poetry-publications-may-2020-present\/\">Detailed poetry publications from May 2020 to present.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>I am also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A member of The Founders Advisory Council for <a href=\"https:\/\/archmission.org&quot;\">The Arch Mission Foundation<\/a> &#8211; <em>Our mission is to preserve and disseminate humanity&#8217;s most important information across time and space, for the benefit of future generations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prior to my retirement on July 1, 2020, I held three positions at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unc.edu\/\">UNC-Chapel Hill<\/a>:<\/strong><br \/>\nClinical Professor at <a href=\"https:\/\/sils.unc.edu\/\">the School of Information &amp; Library Science<\/a><br \/>\nDirector of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/\">ibiblio.org<\/a><br \/>\nDirector of <a href=\"https:\/\/sils.unc.edu\/programs\/graduate\/msis\">the Masters Program in Information Science at UNC SILS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the past, I have also been:<br \/>\nClinical Professor at <a href=\"https:\/\/mj.unc.edu\/\">the School of Media &amp; Journalism<\/a><br \/>\nStrategic Consultant, Informatics at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intrahealth.org\/\">IntraHealth International<\/a><br \/>\nBoard Member At Large of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncpoetrysociety.org\/\">N C Poetry Society<\/a><br \/>\nMember of the Advisory Board for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtechsociety.ie\/\">Irish Tech Society<\/a><br \/>\nVice President of the Board of Trustees of <a href=\"http:\/\/ncwriters.org\/\">North Carolina Writers Network<\/a><br \/>\nFor more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/smalljones\/\">see my LinkedIn profile.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am easily contacted on most social networks (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc) as <strong>smalljones<\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/triangletoot.party\/@Smalljones\">on Mastodon as @smalljones at @triangletoot.party<\/a>. Although I gave up email on June 1, 2011, I will now read email sent to jones@unc.edu will return a reply in due time. I will also answer my phone or, if unavailable at the time of your call, will return your call.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/Vitae.html\">More detailed information about my teaching, work, publications and service at my CV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been publishing poetry since high school (<a href=\"https:\/\/southernundergroundpress.wordpress.com\/publications\/inquisition-charlotte-nc\/\">then in underground presses like Inquisition<\/a>) and later in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/new-nea-pub-list.html\">many other journals and anthologies.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1990, I won the North Carolina Writers&#8217; Network Chapbook Award for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/poetry\/\">What the Welsh and Chinese Have In Common<\/a>. I made an online version of the book in 1993 after physical copies sold out.<\/p>\n<p>I also edited and wrote the headnotes for <a href=\"https:\/\/college.cengage.com\/english\/lauter\/heath\/4e\/students\/author_pages\/contemporary\/carver_ra.html\">the Raymond Carver entry<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/college.cengage.com\/english\/lauter\/heath\/4e\/students\/index.html\">the Heath Anthology of American Literature<\/a> and wrote the workbook section on Carver.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/images\/JonesInCHE.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Paul Jones in Chronicle of Higher Education\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/images\/JonesInCHE.jpg\" title=\"Paul Jones in Chronicle of Higher Education\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brief Literary Bio Paul Jones has published poetry in many journals including Poetry, Hudson Review, River Heron Review, Broadkill Review, and North Carolina Literary Review as well as in cookbooks, in travel anthologies, in collections about passion, love, and in The Best American Erotic Poems: 1800 &#8211; Present. 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