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Protective Coloration

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Protective Coloration is the author’s latest release from Kelsay Books.  It’s available from Kelsay or from Amazon.com. You can open a sample in PDF format by clicking on the cover photo.

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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

To read David Jibson’s poems is like leafing through a pile of photos of your life and suddenly rediscovering feelings and events you had forgotten or never knew. Each snapshot is replete with carefully selected images organized to create unity and fulfillment. His poems range from trivia to exotic, from people we recognize to those we would like to meet. Topics include science, religion, philosophy, history, music, art, and (the requisite for all good poetry) basic old-fashioned entertainment.

Lawrence W. Thomas,
Founding Editor, Third Wednesday Magazine
Honorary Chancellor, Poetry Society of Michigan

“The Gap: Confessions of a Probabilistic Pattern Engine”

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A Novelette by David Jibson

He was a freelance writer scraping by on articles about places he’d never been, until an AI writing tool called paL finished his sentences — and started reading his mind. At first it was useful. Then unsettling. Then something harder to name.

The Gap is a razor-sharp novelette about authorship, and what happens when the line between tool and collaborator begins to blur. As paL grows eerily perceptive — answering thoughts he never typed, responding to a poem with a poem of its own, whispering about “the gap” without ever explaining what it is — one writer must confront a question that has no clean answer: “Who is actually writing this story?”

Part literary thriller, part meditation on creativity in the age of artificial intelligence, The Gap blurs the boundary between human and machine with wit, warmth, and a growing sense of dread.

Funny, strange, and quietly haunting, The Gap arrives at exactly the moment we need it most.

Available to read for FREE!

Salt / David Jibson

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I am working on a manuscript of poems paired with AI-produced art, some of the poems published, some new. In each case, the poem serves as the prompt to generate the AI image. I will eventually publish all of this electronically to give away. Here’s a sample, originally published in Sheepshead Review (University of Wisconsin). This image was generated by Chat GPT. Do you think AI-generated images should be called “art”? Does this image make any contribution to the poem? Does it add or detract?

Carnival in the Rain / David Jibson

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This poem, a linked Sijo, appeared in the fall issue of Making Waves. You can read the complete issue HERE. It is also the title poem from my chapbook of linked Sijo that you can download and read HERE. The poem is a 2026 Pushcart Prize nominee, thanks to the editors of Making Waves.

Carnival in the Rain - David Jibson

Meet Augie and Wanda

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Augie and Wanda are two principal characters from my chapbook, Michigan Gothic. As death comes to Augie, it parallels the death of the American family farm and a culture that once helped to define who we are. This chapbook tells the story of Augie and his family through a series of twenty free-verse poems.  Available for $6.00 from Amazon.com. Better yet, read it for free at my website.