Jeff Newberry
Storyteller | Teacher | Writer
About Jeff
Jeff Newberry is professor of English at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, where he teaches in the writing and communication program. His writing explores the rich intersections of history, culture, and the human experience. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have been published widely in journals and anthologies. With a passion for both creating and teaching, he strives to bring stories to life—whether on the page or in the classroom.
Recent Books
In Frames: A Memoir, Jeff Newberry curates personal experiences to process living in an incomprehensible world. Fragments find meaning via juxtaposition, each page a scaffolding through which patterns emerge. Cultural touchstones from Peanuts to Hamlet intertwine with details of a dysfunctional childhood and efforts to right painful wrongs as a father and teacher today. With these raw materials, Newberry constructs a series of exhibits in book form; text boxes multiply and interact across layouts increasingly complex. As one wanders its corridors, Frames provides a look at the power of refinement in remembering our individual and shared histories. Available from Another New Calligraphy
There is a progress situated fully in this new collection by Jeff Newberry beginning in the hard, green, at times bitter, realizations grown from childhood innocence and reprisals of the nuclear family set in home ground and waters of his native Gulf Coastal Florida and South Georgia. Questions of being continually surface in a determined self-examining poesis cast throughout this volume, where a natural ripening and softening occurs in the author’s transcendence from fathered to father, fledgling to provider as he, with skilled hands and full-grown voice, traverses the soul’s terrain. Herein you’ll find some of the most miraculous tenderness ever committed to verse in a mortal suite devoted to his beloved just-born daughter, thread certain needles of realization beyond, and like whole life arrive at the gates of certain heaven wondering, as must we all, whether to go in.
—Sean Sexton, author of Portals and May Darkness Restore.
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