Jeffrey Bean is the author of three chapbooks and three full-length poetry collections. His most recent chapbook, Ella's Plan, was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the 2022 Poet's Corner Chapbook Contest, and his most recent full-length collection, Everywhere, Everywhere, was chosen by Robert Morgan for the 2024 Vern Rutsala Prize and published by Cloudbank Books. Recent poems appear in The Southern Review, Colorado Review, Poets.org, Sugar House Review, Poet Lore, and I-70 Review, among other journals. He is Professor of English at Central Michigan University, where he is a two-time winner of the Excellence in Teaching Award.

Other poems by Jeffrey Bean in Verse Daily:
October 17, 2022:   "Snow Prayer" "Let sky's soft crush come in sleep...."
August 19, 2022:   "To My Daughter" "In the future, starlings will chatter..."
July 23, 2022:   "It is Friday night" "across the whole Midwest...."
November 7, 2017:   "Song of the Good Body" "Dawn-sick rose-sick word-sick worm-round..."

Other poems on the web by Jeffrey Bean:
Six poems
"Figures 5-28"
"You Are Going to Die"
"The Best Day of Middle School"
"The Climb"
"Gratitude Ode: Snowplow"
"Jeffrey Bean"
"Kid, Dreams Are Little Curls of Light"
"Ella in the Dust,"
"The Voyeur's Blues"

Jeffrey Bean's Website.

About Everywhere, Everywhere:

"Many of the poems have a litany effect, a vigor of repetition and variation. Simple words such as 'blue' can become talismanic. There is a motif of yards, many surprises, and a range of subjects, but the poems cohere into a satisfying unity. A poem such as 'My great-great grandfather's glasses' has both realistic detail, energy of fantasy, and a soaring ending. Many poems like 'Mirror' have perfect endings. Bean has a special sense of history lurking in the everyday, and the future looking on. These poems help us see the world, words, and sometimes, ourselves, anew."
—Robert Morgan

"Jeffrey Bean blends the ordinary and the magical with deftly sinuous musical lines that move and turn through interior and exterior worlds with grace, speed, and surprise. These poems mark, with dexterous precision, the everyday details of place, home, and family—burnishing them with imagery that makes the ordinary remarkable and glazes the day-to-day with the surreal and imaginative wonder of human interiority. These are poems that joyously celebrate presence and attentiveness. You will want to read them everywhere, take them with you everywhere."
—Lee Ann Roripaugh

"In the marvelous Everywhere, Everywhere, it's perfect to find a poem called 'My Friends!' because every single poem in this book feels like a friend we could embrace or exclaim over— then introduce to another beloved friend. With subtle tuning and timing, potent imagery, and a dream-like transporting power, Bean restores us to lost worlds, invites the intense gaze of childhood to remain the most real vision we will ever know, and transports us to a flexible realm where, indeed, everywhere and everything matters. There's so much alchemy here. I found my favorite poem ever written to a comforting guitar, my favorite love poem to a partner, and the best poem yet to weird pandemic isolations. Get ready for your new favorite book."
—Naomi Shihab Nye