Jefferson’s poem “House of Silver” appeared in Megan Grumbling’s poetry column Deep Water in The Maine Sunday Telegram. Grumbling’s introduction reads: “This week’s poem, by Jefferson Navicky, is a kind of prayer-like envisioning of a couple’s home and all that will fill it. I love this poem’s exquisite litany of details, in all their common holiness, and I love the idea of a young and an old version of ourselves existing simultaneously, holding hope and love for each other.”
The Northeast Coast
Jefferson’s prose poem, “The Long-Lost Prose Poems of Walt Whitman,” appeared in Chapter II of the inaugural Summer 2025 issue of The Northeast Coast.
Poetry Medicine for the Soul
Jefferson talks with John Gillespie about Adrian Blevins’s poem, “Life Status.”
Acid-Free Magazine
Jefferson’s essay “Mostly Silence of Various Kinds” was published in Acid-Free Magazine, an online publication of the Los Angeles Archivists Collective. Illustrations by Jazmine "Chewy” Sosa.
Another Chicago Magazine Review of Certain Shelter
Jefferson’s review of Abbie Kiefer’s debut poetry book, Certain Shelter, was published in Another Chicago Magazine.
"In Kiefer’s Maine, the trucks, soon to contain slaughtered chickens, have 'waiting mouths,' 'the air [has] feathers'—as if all that’s left of that life is scattered to the wind. Kiefer braids losses throughout the book; it can feel as if loss, like farm grit, 'filters into every soft thing.'”
Maine Sunday Telegram
Jefferson’s poem “Three-Point Shooter” appeared in the Maine Sunday Telegram. Thank you to Megan Grumbling for choosing it for the week of March Madness. The poem was originally published in Tupelo Quarterly.
The Cafe Irreal
Jefferson’s story “The Cows of Guernsey County” appeared in the Spring 2025 issue of The Cafe Irreal.
Prose poem in Lily Poetry Review
Film Interviews in The Cafe Review
Jefferson conducted four mini interviews about the intersection of film and poetry with poets Megan Grumbling, Colin Cheney, Stefania Irene Marthakis, and Bates College Film Professor Jonathan J. Cavallero.
Finalist for The Big Other Book Awards
Head of Island Beautification for the Rural Outlands is a Finalist for the Big Other Book Award in Fiction! The winner will be announced in the fall. This is an amazing list of some of the best small presses in the country, and it celebrates the thriving diversity of the small press world.
