Jefferson has two poems in the Spring 2020 issue of Beloit Poetry Journal.
Cover art by Amy Bennett
Saving Salmon Podcast
Jefferson’s poem “River Love Salmon Fight Song in Two Parts” ends the final episode of the Saving Salmon Podcast created by Caroline Losneck and Charlie Schmidt. The poem was originally a collaboration with poet Megan Grumbling.
New Flash Fiction Review
Jefferson’s flash fiction piece, “The Blood Artist,” is in issue #20 of New Flash Fiction Review.
Review of David Sloan's new book
Jefferson’s review of David Sloan’s new book of poems from Deerbrook Editions, A Rising, appeared in Another Chicago Magazine.
The Book of Transparencies excerpted in The Sunday Telegram
Megan Grumbling selected one of the prose poems from The Book of Transparencies for the Deep Water series published in The Portland Press Herald.
Pomme Journal
My prose poem “Portrait of Anna K.” is included in Pomme Journal’s inaugural issue, “Fernweh,” which is a German word used to describe a feeling of wanderlust, farsickness or a deep longing to be somewhere else. It is a truly beautiful journal, very well designed, and furthermore, it is the only journal who gift-wrapped their contributor copies. It felt like Christmas!
@ Quiet City Books
From the Local Writers reading at Quiet City Books on November 22, 2019…such an inspiring community that is springing up around this reading series. (photo by Gary Stallsworth)
"A Dangerous New World" in The Portland Phoenix
The Portland Phoenix interviews editors Meghan Sterling and Kathleen Sullivan about their climate change anthology 'A Dangerous New World,' which is full of work from some amazing artists including Betsy Sholl, Richard Blanco, and Alison Hildreth. I'm honored to see the article highlights my poem "The Climate Change Activist Attends a Fundraiser."
Maine Postmark Contest winner
I'm grateful to the Belfast Poetry Festival and judge Anna M. Warrock for choosing my poem "Other Fathers" as the winner of the 2019 Maine Postmark Contest. The judge wrote these kind words of the poem:
The emotion in this poem is carefully registered step by step. This work shows the depth of a so-called list poem and the skill with which the choices made can get it right. Likely the poet made discoveries as they worked to create a multidimensional portrait of the speaker’s inner life and relation to absence, a resonance that resolves into the actual father’s image. The reader can trust the masculinity as defined because the metaphors sharply mark out the speaker’s search, a voice looking toward relation.
Best of the Net nomination
I’m thrilled that Pretty Owl Poetry nominated my flash fiction piece, “Ruth Moore Dreaming,” for the Best of the Net Anthology. You can check out the rest of their nominations here. I’m especially happy they chose that piece, because it was based off a magical trip my wife and I took to Gotts Island, which is about twenty miles beyond Mount Desert Island, where novelist Ruth Moore was born.
