Jeffery Beam

Jeffery Beam's over 20 works include The Broken Flower, Gospel Earth, Visions of Dame Kind, New Beautiful Tendons: Collected Queer Poems 1969–2012 , an online chapbook Don’t Forget Love, the anthology Jonathan Williams: The Lord of Orchards, and the 2019 Spectral Pegasus / Dark Movements— a collaboration with Welsh painter Clive Hicks-Jenkins. His CD What We Have Lost: New and Selected Poems 1977-2001 was an Audio Publishers Award finalist. Numerous composers continue to collaborate, most notably: Lee Hoiby (The Life of the Bee premiered at Carnegie’s Hall and included a CD New Growth); Steven Serpa’s AIDS cantata, symphonic piece, and song cycle; Tony Solitro’s three songs, Holt McCarley’s tone poem; and Daniel Thomas Davis’ song for Andrea Moore’s chamber cycle Kith and Kin: Family Secrets. In progress includes children’s books The Droods and Winter Lullabies (in search of a publisher); Bee, I’m Expecting You—anthology of bee poems, facts, and folklore; and They Say: A Commonplace Book on Poetry and the Spirit (accepted by Spuyten Duyvil). Poetry editor emeritus of Oyster Boy Review, Beam grew up Kannapolis, North Carolina, has lived in the Triangle since 1975, and is a retired UNC-Chapel Hill botanical librarian. He lives in Hillsborough with his husband of 40 years. You can access a number of poems, interviews, excerpts from reviews and other articles, as well as view an hour long retrospective reading on his website, www.jefferybeam.com

“Eno Crow” featured in Wildlife of the Underworld