Reviews

Jefferson Carter is my candidate for poet laureate of Tucson.
-Tom Volgy, former mayor

The poems embrace small, familiar words and build to an understated universality.
-Arizona Daily Star

Jefferson Carter has lived in Tucson since 1954. He teaches developmental composition and poetry writing at Pima Community College, Downtown Campus.. Currently, he is the Writing Department Chair. He has won a Tucson / Pima Arts Council Literary Arts Fellowship, and his poems have appeared in such journals and e-zines as Carolina Quarterly, CrossConnect and Barrow Street. His chapbook Tough Love was the
winner of the Riverstone Poetry Press Award. Sentimental Blue is his seventh collection of poetry.