Jefferson’s review of Dana Levin’s Now Do You Know Where You Are (Copper Canyon 2022) is in the Spring 2023 issue of The Cafe Review:
“The book is shot through with [doubt]. In ‘For the Poets,’ a poem that hoarse whispers in all us poets’ ears, Levin writes, ‘if only three people like a tweet does anything you offer sound in the forest?’ This is the kind of doubt that heads straight to the heart to ask, ‘why . . . do any of us do any of this?’”
Many thanks to Nina MacLaughlin, who called Head of Island Beautification for the Rural Outlands, "peculiar, beautiful, beguiling” in the February 26th edition of the Boston Sunday Globe. She writes, “There is good heat here, like the hot sauces Bird uses, and sauce serves as paint, as creative juice, as flavor enhancer, as ingredient uniter.”
Jefferson’s novel in prose poems, Head of Island Beautification for the Rural Outlands (AC Books 2023), is NOW AVAILABLE for order from Small Press Distribution.
Big thanks to editor John Madera for including Jefferson’s book review of Julian Mithra's Unearthingly (KERNPUNKT Press 2022) in the Big Other Anthology 2022. There are some incredible writers in this anthology -- please check them out!
Many thanks to Maine Arts Journal and Poetry Editor Betsy Sholl for publishing this excerpt from Jefferson’s forthcoming novel in prose poems, Head of Island Beautification for the Rural Outlands (AC Books 2023). There are many other talented writers and artists in this issue including Carl Little, Stuart Kestenbaum, Pat Ranzoni, Edgar Allen Beem, and Claire Milliken. ((typewriter by Alex Rheault))
Jefferson’s review of Julian Mithra’s Unearthingly (KERNPUNKT Press 2022) was published in Big Other.
WIth a lyrical intensity, Amanda Dettmann reviewed Antique Densities in The Cafe Review: "With close attention to oral histories and faults of memory, Navicky’s work invites us to vulnerably enter new rooms of self–recognition while speaking to human limitations. We can never read everything; we often stare at screens to ingest two seconds of a story. Navicky poses: What if we started seeing books on the floor as casualties?...By paradoxically placing enduring language inside ephemerality, Navicky welcomes return, suffering, expansive holding, and an unrealized freedom surviving any sticky shelf life."
Thanks to Bonnie Durham for these photos from Pamela Moulton’s Late Summer’s Night’s Dream in Payson Park in Portland back in September. Lovely to see all the poets’ smiling faces!
Jeri Theriault reviewed Antique Densities in the November 13th Maine Sunday Telegram. She wrote, "One of the many pleasures of 'Antique Densities' is its adherence to the singular conceit of a deconstructed library, a Borgesian place suggested by Jeffrey Haste’s cover art, an abstract portrayal of columns overlaid with recognizable shapes, one of them a set of stairs, another two arched windows framing clouds."
