Awards & Recognitions
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- Library Journal, “Best Poetry of 2024”
- Recommended reading, Jewish Book Council Bookshelf: Winter 2024
- Library Journal | The Readers’ Almanac Books to Know in 2024, “Spiritual Longing”
- Summer 2024 Book Club Picks, Jewish Women’s Archive
- Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) Noteworthy Title
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
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- 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
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Reviews
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- Library Journal, “Best Poetry of 2024”
- Library Journal, Barbara Hoffert
(starred review) - Poetry Foundation, Virginia Konchan
- North Carolina Literary Review, Catherine Carter
- The Christian Century, Julie L. Moore
- Tupelo Quarterly, “Learning to Climb the Tree,” Anastastios Mihalopolous
- Jewish Book Council, Julie R. Enszer
- Washington Post Book Club: “A Strange Coincidence Gives Hope,” Ron Charles
- New York Journal of Books, Adrienne Scanlon Ross
- Tablet Magazine, “The Unaloner,” Jake Marmer
- TRAMPOLINE, Jessie van Eerden
- The Los Angeles Review, Deborah Bacharach
- Sinister Wisdom, Sisel Gelman
- Slant Books, “Living Traditions,” Brian Volck
- Friends Journal, Michael S. Glaser
- Still: The Journal, Jamie Wendt
- America: The Jesuit Review, Delaney Coyne
- Best American Poetry Blog: “Two Poets, One Book Jacket,” Nin Andrews
Write It! 100 Poetry Prompts to Inspire
Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going
- Southern Humanities Review
- Tupelo Quarterly
- The Adroit Journal
- Screen Door Review
- Drizzle Review
- Kenyon Review
- Washington Independent Review of Books
In Whatever Light Left to Us
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Coverage
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- Forward, “Why Hebrew is showing up in unexpected places — and why that matters,” Aviya Kushner
- Hadassah Magazine, “Jewish Poetry’s Renaissance—and Challenges,” Judy Bolton-Fasman
- Best American Poetry Blog, “First Poems: A Conversation with Philip Metres, Jessica Jacobs, Leah Umansky, and H.L. Hix [curated by Dante Di Stefano]”
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
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- The Advocate, “The 30 Best Books You Missed in 2015”
- Mountain Xpress, Asheville, NC
- WUKY: NPR, “Bookmarks,” Lexington, KY
Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry
Interviews
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- Image Journal, “To Arm Ourselves Instead with Questions: Jessica Jacobs and Philip Metres in Conversation”
- Poetry Northwest, “Making Room for Mystery,” with Anastasios Mihapoulos
- The Rumpus, “Let Every Fence Have a Gate: A Conversation with Jessica Jacobs,” with Diane Gottlieb
- American Poetry Review, “Rocking to a Rhythm,” with Elizabeth Jacobson
- Niv Magazine, “Alive to the Possibilities: In Conversation with Jessica Jacobs,” with Orly Zebak
- Jewish Book Council, “Torah and Midrash as the Rich Humus for Poems: A Conversation with Jessica Jacobs,” with Julie R. Enszer
- Red Canary Magazine, “Wake Up to the Earth,” with Tony Barnstone
- Earth & Altar, “Corporeal Cameras, A Conversation with Jessica Jacobs,” with Terry Stokes
- Jewish Women’s Archive, “7 Questions for Jessica Jacobs,” with Sarah Biskowitz
- Plume Poetry: “unalone” with Jessica Jacobs: A conversation with Nancy Mitchell
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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”
- 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
- 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
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- The Cloudy House, “Jessica Jacobs on Pelvis with Distance”
- Chris Rice Cooper, “Practicing Secular Kenosis”
- 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”
Audio Interviews
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- Podcast: Queering Contemplation, with Cassidy Hall, sponsored by The Christian Century
- Podcast: Writer to Writer, with Rebecca Evans & Ken Rodgers, Boise, ID
- Podcast: Queer Theology, with Brian Murphy & Fr. Shannon Kearns
- Radio Interview: The Sound of Ideas, with Philip Metres and host Jenny Hamel, “Two poets, one Jewish and one Arab American, connect through new poetry books”
- Radio Interview: Northampton Poetry Radio with Rich Michelson
Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going
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