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
Pelvis with Distance
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
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