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Jeff Newberry

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A native of the Florida Gulf Coast, Jeff Newberry is is the author of Brackish (Aldrich Press, 2012) and A Visible Sign (Finishing Line 2008). He is the co-editor (with Brent House) of The Gulf Stream: Poems of the Gulf Coast (Snake Nation Press, 2013).

Newberry's writing has appeared in a variety of print and online journals, including Anti-, The Florida Review, The Cortland Review, Chattahoochee Review, Crab Orchard Review, New South, Memorious, Hobble Creek Review, Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art, The Southeast Review, Sweet: A Literary Confection and Waccamaw: A Journal of Contemporary Literature, as well as in the online anthology Best of the Net 2008. His poetry has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He's given talks and l ...more

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	A Stairway to the Sea 3.42 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brackish 4.61 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Talk About the Dead 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Visible Sign 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cross Country by Jeff Newberry (Goodreads Author), Justin Evans (Goodreads Author) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gulf Stream: Poems of the Gulf Coast by Jeff Newberry (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Brent House (Editor), Anne Fisher-Wirth it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brackish by Jeff Newberry (2012-10-31) by Jeff Newberry (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Red Rock Review: Fall 2022 Issue 49 by Red Rock Review, Melody Wilson, Ryan Mattern 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“There is time, and then there is timelessness. And if you're lucky, and if you can be still enough, observant enough, you may be able to know and speak about that intersection of time and timelessness, or time and eternity.”
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“Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?... Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?... The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking-not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
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