Hi, welcome to my webpage. My name is Jefferson Hansen, and I have been publishing poetry, fiction, and essays since 1988. Notice of and links to my most recent publications appear on this page. For older publications, go to the "Publications" page listed to the right.

Currently, I am working as a mail artist. This means I self-publish with my own Circulatory Press and mail copies to people who, in turn, mail me their art. If you would like a copy of one of my books, mail me something! Address is in the contact page. If you would rather purchase a book, send $5 for a chapbook and $10 for a full-length book.

I am currently in the midst of a four-chapbook series. The first draft of three of the four chapbooks was written in a 3 x 5 inch notebook, and the fourth in a 5 x 8. As of May 2026, two are out: a tree and friends. A pond and solo/space are scheduled to appear in September.

My latest full-length book is the figments are here by Post-Asemic Press.  It is available at Amazon and from me. Just send me a $10 check.

In 2018, I published 100 Hybrids also by Post-Asemic Press. I thank the editor and publisher, Michael Jacobson. It has been taught for a few years in a contemporary literature course at a university. It can be purchased at Amazon or from me

"This book is a journal of the poet's resilience trying to find what isn't here and what isn't now with sharp, melancholic entries. My quick blurb is that 100 Hybrids is pithiness on acid! Each independent, single-paged stanza—which range from vignettes about isolation to short slam eruptions—is framed by alien glyphs that complement and defy the words they contain. Some hybrids have coastlines or sit within broken mazes, but Jeff places most of his poetic observations within intuitively-prompted or automatic symbols that express other sounds, interactions, and/or meanings. Several of the frames remind me of Erich Von Daniken's Rolodex; others of Lemuria; most that our words, facts, and realities are limited and limiting. Genuinely fun and thoughtful tangents that don't lead to Rome. I took this book on a trip, and it returned the favor.

                                                            --Thomas M. Cassidy

"Formica" is a story-poem which appears in The Figments Are Here. (Click name for link.)

Current Interest

The Circulatory Press 

Recent Internet Publications

 

Three poems in Big Other thanks to editor John Madera

Poems on The Post-Asemic Blog that appeared in 100 Hybrids, thanks to editor Michael Jacobson

Poems at Brave New Word that appeared in 100 Hybrids, thanks to editor Volodymyr Bilyk

Recent Reviews Written by Me

 

Asemic: The Art of Writing by Peter Schwenger in Rain Taxi, Volume 25, Number 2, Summer 2020. 

 

Reviews also used to regularly appear on my discontinued blog, The Altered Scale Blog, including "Tribute to the Critic of Tone-Jam: Remarks Off Charles Bernstein's Topsy Turvy"

          

Essays also appeared on that blog. A good example is "Against Science as Such: A Tribute to Direct Support Professionals"