Poet Jeffery Beam
Poems

New: Hear a recording (mp3 file, 9 MB) of Jeffery reading at the Carrboro Poetry Festival, June 5, 2004.

Snake In Autumn
The Man Who Ate Butterflies
I Have Never Wanted
Le Quattro Stagioni
The Loom
What I Know About Poetry
Bluets
Sweet Fennel
Findings
St. Jerome In His Study
Shedding the Old Self
The Beaver
The Cat
The Whale
Ars Poetica: The Queen
The Sting
Minotaur Exposed
The Green Man's Man

Variation on a Malay Theme: The Changes
Flowering Apricot
The Spell
That Night
Entomology
Lovesick Shirt
A Flower Song
Song
Antinous in Egypt
Sebastian at Siege
Bluebird
The Goodbye Nest
Mockingbird
When You Stop to Rest
little: a Happy Hill Sutra
An Invocation
The Listeners
Love Comes

Grateful acknowledgement is made to publications in which these poems first appeared: Amethyst, Anteros Pagan Anthology, The Arts Journal, The Carolina Quarterly, Carolina Spring, Earth & Soul: A Russian / English Anthology of North Carolina Poetry, The Front Page, Gay Sunshine Fiction Anthology, Hummingbird, Kiss of the Whip, Lambda Newsletter, modern words, The News & Observer, North Carolina Botanical Garden Newsletter, Off the Rocks, Paper Voices Broadside, The Pilot, The Sun, and Word & Witness: 100 Years of North Carolina Poetry.

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Last updated: Tuesday, July 29, 2004