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Awards & Recognitions

Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going

  • One of Library Journal‘s Best Poetry Books of 2019 
  • Winner, Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award in Poetry, Southern Illinois University
  • Winner, Goldie Award in Poetry, Golden Crown Literary Society
  • Shortlist Finalist, Julie Suk Award, Jacar Press
  • Finalist, American Fiction Award in Poetry, American Book Fest
  • Honorable Mention, Brockman-Campbell Book Award, North Carolina Poetry Society

Pelvis with Distance

  • Winner of the 2015 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award in Poetry
  • An Over the Rainbow selection by the American Library Association
  • Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry
  • Longlist finalist for the Julie Suk Award

Reviews

Write It! 100 Poetry Prompts to Inspire

  • Young People Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye’s January book pick
  • Best American Poetry Blog, Nin Andrews
  • Smith Alumnae Quarterly, Christina Barber-Just

Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going

  • Southern Humanities Review
  • Tupelo Quarterly
  • The Adroit Journal
  • Screen Door Review
  • Lambda Literary Review
  • Drizzle Review
  • Kenyon Review
  • Washington Independent Review of Books

In Whatever Light Left to Us

  • Empty Mirror
  • The Bind

Pelvis with Distance

  • The Rumpus
  • O, The Oprah Magazine, O’s Circle of Friends
  • Chronicling Georgia O’Keeffe
  • Broadsided
  • American Book Review
  • Library Journal
  • Publishers Weekly
  • Gulf Stream Literary Magazine
  • Los Angeles Review 
  • Big Bang Poetry
  • Out in Print: Queer Book Reviews 

Interviews

New Manuscript inspired by the Book of Genesis

  • The Massachusetts Review, “10 Questions for Jessica Jacobs,” Marissa Perez
  • Jewish Boston, “Poet Jessica Jacobs on Midrashic and Spiritual Poetry,” Judy Bolton-Fasman

Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going

  • 32 Poems, “Dancing This Particular Dance: An Interview with Jessica Jacobs by Cate Lycurgus”
  • Kenyon Review, “Poet Today: Jessica Jacobs and David Welch,” Ruben Quesada
  • The Rupture, “Every Water I’d Ever Tasted,” Angela Redmond-Theodore
  • The Adroit Journal, Interview with Tom Bosworth
  • Screen Door Review, Interview with Alesha Dawson
  • Fear No Lit, “Tour Grind: Jessica Jacobs,” Christopher “Hop” Hopkins
  • The Normal School, “Take Us With You Wherever You’re Going: A Normal Interview with Jessica Jacobs”
  • University of Maine—Farmington, “Interview with Poets Jessica Jacobs & Nickole Brown”
  • Interview with Gabrielle Brant Freeman on In Whatever Light Left to Us

Pelvis with Distance

  • The Cloudy House, “Jessica Jacobs on Pelvis with Distance”
  • Chris Rice Cooper, “Practicing Secular Kenosis”
  • Creative Loafing, “Asheville poets Nickole Brown and Jessica Jacobs document their upbringings and marriage through verse”
  • Arkansas Times, “Your Reader and Witness,” with Nickole Brown
  • Hendrix College Aonian, “Interview with Poet and Professor Jessica Jacobs”
  • The Poet’s Grin, “Two Poets, Four Hearts: Nickole Brown & Jessica Jacobs” 
  • Iron Horse Literary Review, “Duets Issue,” with Nickole Brown

Audio

  • “Talking Book Podcast” reading poems from Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going
  • “Wordplay” with Jeff Davis and Lockie Hunter (reading from In Whatever Light Left to Us: begins at 2:30) on Asheville FM, Asheville, NC, June 2016
  • “Michelle Meow Show,” Progressive Voices, San Francisco, CA, February 2016
  • “Wordplay” with Jeff Davis and Lockie Hunter (reading from Pelvis with Distance) on Asheville FM, Asheville, NC, June 2015
  • “Talk with Me” (interview) on Lawrence Hits, Lawrence, KS, March 2015
  • “Sex, Suddenly, Everywhere,” Adroit Journal, 2017
  • “Primer,” Rattle, #37, Summer 2012

Coverage

Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going

  • Mountain Xpress, “Every Poem is a Love Poem: Nickole Brown, Jessica Jacobs, and Melissa Crowe Launch New Poetry Collections”
  • Poem of the Week feature
  • “Five Women Who Have Written Moving Memoirs”

Pelvis with Distance

  • The Advocate, “The 30 Best Books You Missed in 2015”
  • Poets & Writers
  • Mountain Xpress, Asheville, NC
  • Lavender Magazine, Minneapolis, MN
  • WUKY: NPR, “Bookmarks,” Lexington, KY
  • Artvoice, Buffalo, NY
  • Art Mag, Charleston, SC

Video

  • Alaska Quarterly Review reading of poems inspired by the Book of Genesis
  • Interview with Nickole Brown for Western Carolina University
  • College of Southern Maryland, with Nickole Brown (Jessica reads from In Whatever Light Left to Us before Nickole reads, then reads new poems after Nickole’s reading):
  • Hendrix College, reading from Pelvis with Distance with Creative Writing faculty Hope Coulter and Tyrone Jaeger (Jessica’s reading begins at 43:00):
  • Live from Prairie Lights, reading from Pelvis with Distance with Nickole Brown, March 2015 (Jessica’s reading from 2:15-24:15):

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