Audio and video

An interview about the book Jonathan Williams: The Lord of Orchards with Jackie Helvey and Valerie Schwartz on the Wacqueline Stern radio show, WCOM 103.5 FM, November 10, 2017.

An interview with poetry with Jackie Helvey and Valerie Schwartz on the Wacqueline Stern radio show, WCOM 103.5 FM, August 4, 2017.

Beyond the Green Door, retrospective reading as part of the Faith and the Arts series at St Matthews Episcopal Church, Hillsborough, NC, Part 1, October 18, 2015.

Beyond the Green Door, retrospective reading as part of the Faith and the Arts series at St Matthews Episcopal Church, Hillsborough, NC, Part 2, October 18, 2015.

Beyond the Green Door, retrospective reading as part of the Faith and the Arts series at St Matthews Episcopal Church, Hillsborough, NC, Part 3, October 18, 2015.

Porch Song no. 2 (from Family Secrets: Kith and Kin: Seven Portraits) Hill Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, March 29, 2015.

An interview with poetry with Jackie Helvey and Valerie Schwartz on the Wacqueline Stern radio show, WCOM 103.5 FM, December 12, 2012.

Hear an interview with Frank Stasio on The State of Things, NPR Station WUNC-FM 91.5 about The Broken Flower, October 12, 2012

Hear a recording (mp3 file, 9 MB) of Jeffery reading at the Carrboro Poetry Festival, June 5, 2004.

Hear a recording of works published in QarrtsiluniFortune Beams: Lines extracted from four decades of poems, placed inside homemade fortune cookies for our friends on my husband’s and my own50th birthday celebration, 2003; The Dog as Healer; Winter Cedars; and see one photograph St. Kieran’s Holy Well, Kilkieran, Ireland.

Hear the Life of the Bee (five poems) recorded at Town Hall, NY, from New Growth, released November 1, 2002.

Hear the song Millennium Approaches from Life of the Bee recorded at Town Hall, NY, from New Growth, sung by Shauna Holiman, released November 1, 2002.

Hear the song Spirit of the Hive from Life of the Bee recorded at Town Hall, NY, from New Growth, sung by Shauna Holiman, released November 1, 2002.

Hear the song The Sting from Life of the Bee recorded at Town Hall, NY, from New Growth, sung by Shauna Holiman, released November 1, 2002.

Hear the song Ars Poetica: The Queen from Life of the Bee recorded at Town Hall, NY, from New Growth, sung by Shauna Holiman, released November 1, 2002.

Hear the song The Swarm from Life of the Bee recorded at Town Hall, NY, from New Growth, sung by Shauna Holiman, released November 1, 2002.

Airing of part of a recording of the Rain Taxi interview with Jonathan Williams by Jeffery Beam, along with a 1981 poetry reading by Jonathan.  WordPlay with Jeff Davis, WPVM 103.5 FM Asheville, NC, Sunday, April 12, 2009.

Two appearances on WordPlay with Jeff Davis WPVM 103.5 FM Asheville, NC: 2008, 2009.

Composer Steven Serpa continues to create works using Beam’s texts, or inspired by them including

Heaven’s Birds: Lament and Song, a cantata for World AIDS Day for mezzo solo, SATB chorus, and piano quartet;

An Invocation for Oboe (or Soprano Saxophone), Violin, Viola, and Cello (2012);

An Invocation for Oboe and String Orchestra (2016);

and the song cycle The Creatures: A Bestiary Retold (2017).

Holt McCarley composed a cadenza-like, virtuosic piece for solo clarinet in response to the Bestiary, The Hyena (2015)

One of the interviewees on “Childhood Holiday Memories of North Carolina,“The State of Things” with host Melinda Penkava, WUNC-FM 91.5, December 24, 2004.

Remembering Maud Gatewood: Triangle poet Jeffrey Beam eulogizes North Carolina painter Maud Gatewood who died on Nov 8th and was memorialized in her hometown of Yanceyville on Sunday November 15, 2004. Beam remembers Gatewood’s fiesty personality, deep roots in North Carolina and her celebrated painting career, “The State of Things” with host Melinda Penkava, WUNC-FM 91.5, November 15, 2004.

Jeffery Beam: An Interview by Mark A. Roberts, Poetry Editor, Nantahala Review, after a poetry reading and premiere performance of Life of the Bee—Lee Hoiby song cycle at the North Carolina Literary Festival, UNC-Chapel Hill, April 5, 2002. The interview includes video and audio clips.