“Jeffery Beam’s . . . vision is lyrical, yet exacting as dirt under a leaf, air in a storm. He is North Carolina’s lead singer.” — Former NC Poet Laureate and editor Shelby Stephenson
“You are one of the poets I feel closest to—kindred spirit in love with the natural world & kindred spirit of awe & affection to our own kind.” —Poet & environmentalist Antler
“I can think of no other poet than the true bard, Jeffery Beam, who so elegantly, so riskily, layers into his language plain-speak and grandeur. He folds language into an entirely new province, something all its own, wholly original, yet gathering the tribes and kin of its influence, of its own making.” —Former North Carolina Poet Laureate Joseph Bathanti
