Awards
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
Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going
- Southern Humanities Review
- The Adroit Journal
- Screen Door Review
- Drizzle Review
- Washington Independent Review of Books
In Whatever Light Left to Us
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
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”
- Smith Alumnae Quarterly, Northampton, MA
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
Interviews
Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going
- Screen Door Review, Interview with Alesha Dawson
- The Normal School, “Take Us With You Wherever You’re Going: A Normal Interview with Jessica Jacobs”
- 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
Video
- 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):
- Live from Prairie Lights, reading from Pelvis with Distance with Nickole Brown, March 2015 (Jessica’s reading from 2:15-24:15):
