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Jeffery Beam

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by George J. Dance

Jeffery Scott Beam (born 1953) is an American poet.[1]

Jeffery Beam. Photo by M.J. Sharp. Courtesy NC Poet Laureate Blog.

Jeffery Beam. Photo by M.J. Sharp. Courtesy NC Poet Laureate Blog.

Life[]

Beam was born and grew up in Kannapolis, North Carolina.[2]

He moved to Orange County, North Carolina, in 1975. He has lived in Hillsborough, North Carolina, with his husband, Stanley Finch, since 1984.[2]

Beam worked for 35 years as a botanical librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, retiring in November 2011.[2]

Beam's work has appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, Assaracus, Carolina Quarterly, Gargoyle Magazine, Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, North Carolina Literary Review, and Yellow Silk.[3]

Recognition[]

Beam's many awards and grants include 3 American Library Association Notable Book and Gay / Lesbian Non-fiction Award nominations, a Pushcart nomination, an IPPY Ten Best Books Award, an Audie Award, an AIGA 50 Best Books Award, a Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival Award, a North Carolina Writers Network Blumenthal Writer and Reader Award, a Durham Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant, a Duke University Chronicle Award, a Writer's Digest Editor Award for best E-Zine poetry outlet, a 1998 Associated Press Holiday Gift Giving Ideas, and a grant from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation.[3]

His work as an educator was highlighted in The Compassionate Classroom: Lessons that nurture wisdom and empathy, by Jane Dalton and Lyn Fairchild.[3]

Beam is also the recipient of a Preservation Award from the 2004 Preservation Society of Chapel Hill, and the 1st annual Provost Award for Public Service from the UNC-Chapel Hill Center for Public Service in 2000.[3]

Publications[]

Poetry[]

  • Midwinter Fires. Ashland, NC: French Broad Press, 1990; Lewisburg, PA: Seven Kitchens Press, 2011.
  • The Fountain. Rocky Mount, NC: North Carolina Wesleyan College Press, 1992.
  • Visions of Dame Kind. Winston-Salem, NC: Jargon Society, 1995.
  • Light and Shadow: The photographs of Claire Yaffa. New York: Aperture, 1997.
  • Little (with Damon Sauvé). Green Finch Press, 1997.
  • Submergences (with prints by Kathleen Carlton Johnson). Carrboro, NC: Off the Cuff Books, 1997.
  • An Elizabethan Bestiary: Retold. Horse & Buggy Press, 1999.
  • What We Have Lost: New and selected poems, 1977-2001. Hillsboro, NC: Green Finch Press, 2002.
  • Jeffery Beam's allnatural heatsensitive ganeshapproved zuppapoetica alphabeatspiritbodysoup (chapbook). New Hope, PA: Alpha Beat Press, 2003.
  • Gospel Earth. Green River, VT: Longhouse, 2006; Nottingham, UK: Skysill Press, 2010.
  • The Beautiful Tendons: Uncollected queer poems, 1969-2007. Brooklyn, NY: White Crane Books, 2008.
  • An Invocation: Honouring William S. Powell. Gardnerville, NV: Country Valley Press, 2008.
  • MountSeaEden. Chestertown, PA: Chester Creek Press, 2012.
  • The Broken Flower. Nottingham, UK: Skysill Press, 2012),
  • The New Beautiful Tendons: Collected queer poems 1969-2012. New York: Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2013.
  • Spectral Pegasus / Dark Movements (with art by Clive Hicke-Jenkins). Higganum, CT: Kin Press, 2018.

Music[]

  • "The Life of the Bee: For voice, cello, and piano." Long Eddy, NY: Rock Valley Music, 2001.

Non-fiction[]

  • On Hounded Ground: Home and the creative life (essay with poems). Sendai, Japan: Bookgirl Press, 2008.

Edited[]

  • Jonathan Williams: The lord of orchards (edited with Richard Owens). Westport, CT: Prospecta Press, 2017.


Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[4]

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Jeffery Beam Poetry Reading Beyond the Green Door Part 2

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References[]

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Notes[]

  1. ↑ Jeffery Beam papers ca. 1968-2007, UNC University Libraries. Web, Dec. 4, 2019.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Poet Jeffery Bean, About, Jeffery Beam. Web, Dec. 4, 2019.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Jeffery Beam, Poets & Writers, November 14, 2018. Web, Dec. 4, 2019.
  4. ↑ Search results = au:Jeffery Bean, WorldCat, , OCLC, Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Dec. 4, 2019.

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