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Brackish
'Brackish' is an illuminating and pitch-perfect portrait of a region and a people, and Jeff Newberry’s wonderful collection also serves as a powerful demonstration of the role that the places we call home have in both shaping and cursing us. These haunting, evocative poems will stay with you for a very long time. ~ Skip Horack, author of The Southern Cross and The Eden Hunter
- GenresPoetry
102 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2012
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About the author
Jeff Newberry
9 books36 followersA 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 led panels at the Flannery O'Connor and Other Georgia Writers Conference, The Conference on Christianity and Literature, The Florida Literary Arts Coalition's Other Words Conference, and the Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers Conference. The recipient of a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, he teaches composition, literature, and creative writing at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, Georgia, where he serves as faculty adviser for Pegasus, ABAC's literary magazine. In the spring of 2014, ABAC named Newberry its first Poet in Residence.
Newberry earned his BA and MA in English from the University of West Florida in Pensacola, where as a graduate student he served as the managing editor of Panhandler. He holds a PhD from the University of Georgia.
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 led panels at the Flannery O'Connor and Other Georgia Writers Conference, The Conference on Christianity and Literature, The Florida Literary Arts Coalition's Other Words Conference, and the Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers Conference. The recipient of a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, he teaches composition, literature, and creative writing at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, Georgia, where he serves as faculty adviser for Pegasus, ABAC's literary magazine. In the spring of 2014, ABAC named Newberry its first Poet in Residence.
Newberry earned his BA and MA in English from the University of West Florida in Pensacola, where as a graduate student he served as the managing editor of Panhandler. He holds a PhD from the University of Georgia.
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May 26, 2014
Just re-read this beautiful collection about working class coastal Florida. Newberry takes me there and makes me fall in love. Favorite poems: "How to Shuck an Oyster," "English Lesson, 8th Grade," "The Maker's Rage to Order," "Deep, Like Blood," and "8. How to Listen."
December 20, 2023
It’s poetry for those who don’t always enjoy poetry. “How to Shuck an Oyster” is one of my favorite poems I’ve ever read. Definitely worth a read.
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