Jeffry Glover

CONTACT:
Email: PoemsforPleasurePress@yahoo.com
Website: https://JeffryGlover.com

BIO:

Jeffry Glover is an award-winning Wisconsin poet with degrees in English, History, and Library Science from the Universities of Wisconsin. Following his career devoted to promoting libraries and reading, he is collecting his poetry written over the decades into books for publication. His poem “The Broken Apple Tree” received Second Place in the WFOP 2021 Muse Prize Contest. His sonnet “Love’s Defense” is a Regional Prize Winner in the 2025 Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest. “Triskaidekaphobia” was featured in the 2022 WFOP Wisconsin Poet’s Calendar. The poem “Raspberries” won Third Prize nationally in the 2018 Frost Poetry Contest. He is also the developer of many popular library reading promotional products, as well as the creator of The Book Bug Game that introduces young people to library books and The Cool Chicken Game that helps young people develop library skills.

PUBLICATIONS:

Jeffry has published three books: Letter to a Dandelion: Earth Verse for Gardeners & Nature Lovers (a Booklife Editor’s Pick published in March 2025), The Wildebeest and a Bunch of Crock and Other Animal Story Poems, and 9 Lively Cat Tales and Other Pet Poems, available to order online, through local bookstores, at libraries, and at JeffryGlover.com. 9 Lively Cat Tales is also available as an audiobook from audible.com. A chapbook, Picture Poems, is in the works, and Jeffry is currently transforming his binders of poems, especially sonnets, into multiple manuscripts nearing completion.  

Poetry

The Broken Apple Tree

What weighty snow last winter did not do,
My apple tree itself has mostly done:
Bent and broke its crown near half in two,
Heavy fruit brought limbs down, overcome.
Such bounty as I’d never seen before
Gave heaviness the tree could not sustain
To which was added wind and strong downpour
That overreached its limit, given rain,
Till when I went and saw the tree today,
How shocking was its breakage all around.
Apples lay in fallen disarray,
Scattered, many rotting on the ground,
Reminding me be cautious and take care
To carry only that which I can bear.

The Rainbow Road

The rainbow road in the sky
Curves above us, magic, high.
Its colors thrill our gazing eye
When we happen one to spy
Made by rain when light shines through,
Far too fleeting to pursue,
Like a marvelous dream come true,
A wonder to us, me and you.
A rainbow is a natural gift
Giving every heart a lift,
Usually a light surprise
When we see one in our skies
Like a bridge beyond compare
Or heaven’s staircase built on air.

 - from Letter to a Dandelion, Poems for Pleasure Press, © 2025