Jerome "J-Square" Jones

Jerome “J-Square” Jones (born 1968) is a New York based African-American poet, writer, playwright, speaker and publisher. Choosing to focus on contemporary issues and writing with a hip hop influenced rhythm, J-Square, as he is known in the poetry scene, considers his work to be “political/social commentary, with tinge of satire." Jerome has been featured at various venues such as the Apollo Theater, S.O.B.’s, The Cherry Lane Theatre and The Nuyorican Poets Café among others.

He is co-writer, co-producer and performer of the critically acclaimed multi media spoken word play, No Good Nigga Bluez: Poems and Tales of Black Men in a Post-Civil Rights America along with Mo Beasley,^[1] which has been featured in the 2003 NYC International Fringe Festival as well as the 2003 and 2004 Congressional Black Caucus. He has also featured at many colleges and universities across the country.

In 1998, he wrote his first book, Screams From Below The Brain. In 2001, he wrote and performed the one man show, "While Being Dragged From A Truck, I Wrote This Poem." In 2003, he co-created Scripted Linguistics Publishing, LLC which, in 2004, published No Good Nigga Bluez (the book form of the live show. The book is co-authored with (Mo Beasley).

Jerome is currently working on his next book of poetry, Made In America, which he looks to publish in 2006. He also conducts a bi-weekly interview session called Writer’s BLOCK on his web site.

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External links

• J-Square's home page, archived at the Internet Archive as of February 28, 2009.