Love Letters: To Whom They May Concern

When Ramona Jones started writing and performing poetry during the rise of spoken word venues and poetry slams of the late 1990s, she immediately stood out as a contradiction of her generation. Reminiscent of the legends of the Harlem Renaissance but with postmodernist flair, she tells stories that give emotion a face.

Love Letters: To Whom They May Concern is the first compilation of Jones' poetry. It is the testimony of the gifts and callings we try to outrun, which instead overtake us so...