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HIBRO in the Maine Sunday Telegram

Thanks to Editor Megan Grumbling for including HIBRO in the July 9 2023 Deep Water Column.

HIBRO in The Republican Journal

The former Poet Laureate of Belfast, Maine, Judy Kaber, included a prose poem from Head of Island Beautification in her column, Poet's Walk, in The Republican Journal.

Exacting Clam

Thanks to Exacting Clam, and Sagging Meniscus Press, for publishing three poems, including “Mid-American Science Fiction.” Cover art by the multi-talented Jesi Bender.

Poetry Book Review in The Cafe Review

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?’”

HIBRO in the Boston Sunday Globe

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.”

Head of Island Beautification for the Rural Outlands NOW AVAILABLE

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.

Prose poem/Flash fiction in Electric Literature

Thanks to Electric Literature for publishing Jefferson’s prose poem, “Time of Mother”

Big Other 2022 Anthology

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!

HIBRO in Maine Arts Journal

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))