Jefferson Carter has work in such journals as Barrow Street and Rattle. Chax Press published Get Serious: New and Selected Poems, a Southwest Best Book of 2013. Free Hugs, his thirteenth book, won the 2025 New Mexico
Book Design award and is now available from Coyote Arts, NM.
Carter lives in Tucson with his wife Connie. He taught composition and poetry for 30 years at Pima Community College.
Nowadays, nobody’s impressedwhen I tell them I met Betty Friedan.Remember her? Author ofThe Feminine Mystique? She wasfalling-down drunk, foamingat the mouth,... Read more.
