Jefferson’s flash fiction story, “The Patron Saint of Kapowa Island,” is Episode #540 for Manawaker Studio’s Flash Fiction Podcast read by C.B. Droege.
elsewhere magazine
Jefferson’s prose poem, “Dear Fork,” was published in issue 19 of elsewhere magazine: the prose poetry magazine.
Poetry Express on WERU
Samaa Abdurraqib read Jefferson’s poem “Chest Poem” for WERU’s Poetry Express series.
Waterwheel Review Q&A
Thanks to Waterwheel Review and Editor Claire Guyton for this interview.
Maine Literary Award news item
The University of New England conducted an interview with Jefferson about his recent Maine Literary Award win, and they gave him the chance to talk about how much he loves the Maine Women Writers Collection.
Waterwheel Review
Jefferson’s short prose piece, “Three Women Writing Around My Head,” is included in the inaugural issue of Waterwheel Review.
Clockwise: Kate Barnes, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Ruth Moore (photo collage credit: Claire Guyton & Waterwheel Review)
L/A Arts Genre Spotlight on Prose Poetry
Jefferson talked about prose poetry with Claire Guyton and Josh Gauthier of Local Writers Read for L/A Arts’s Virtual Art Walk. He read from The Book of Transparencies. Here’s a link to the reading on YouTube.
Review of Any God Will Do
Jefferson’s review of Virginia Konchan’s book of poems, Any God Will Do, is in the Summer 2020 issue of The Cafe Review.
“This may be my own bias showing through, but…I pictured a golden–haloed Bruce Springsteen tearing it up on stage. Happiness, like everything else, is a performance, and in Any God Will Do, Virginia Konchan is the kind of performer who is impossible to ignore.”
Gulf of Maine ECOARTS video
Jefferson made a video for The Bigelow Project of him reading two of his poems, “The Boom in Birds” & “The Library of the Forest.”
Maine Literary Award Winner
Jefferson’s manuscript, “‘Other Fathers’ and other poems," won the Maine Literary Award for Poetry Short Works. Congratulations to the other MLA winners!
