PERFORMANCE PIECE — Jefferson Carter

Jefferson Carter has lived in Tucson since 1954. He taught developmental composition and poetry writing at Pima Community College, Downtown Campus, where he was the Writing Department Chair. He is now retired. 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. My Kind of Animal from Chax Press is his eighth collection of poetry: http://www.chax.org/poets/carter.htm