David Jibson is a poet and the editor of 3rd Wednesday Magazine. His poetry collection, Protective Coloration from Kelsay Books / Aldrich Press, is also available from Amazon.com. Sample poems from this collection are available in a free to download PDF. (click the cover thumbnail above). The chapbooks; Poem Noir, Michigan Gothic, Year of Moons, The Way of the River, Silas Marner Redacted and Carnival in the Rain can be downloaded in their entirety, free of charge. Some are also available in print at minimal prices from Amazon, but the free ones are recommended (he values readership over profit).
“In this splendid collection of engaging and unmistakably American poems, David Jibson manages to find beauty in utterly unexpected places: piled up on a back shelf at the Salvation Army Store, for example, or strung along the bedraggled length of the Ohio Turnpike—or perhaps in the lovely, tentative dance of a blind woman learning to walk with a white cane. Along with a faint echo of Ted Kooser or Billy Collins at their conversational best, you’ll be captivated by Jibson’s own irresistible voice: that of a witty, insightful observer of the astonishments that surround us.”
Marilyn L. Taylor,
Wisconsin Poet Laureate, Emerita
David K. Jibson 