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):