"Jeffery Beam is the author of numerous works of poetry and song as listed on the pages previous. His work was surveyed in Greenwood Press's Contemporary Gay American Poets and Playwrights: An A - Z Guide, Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States, and Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgendered Queer America Today Encyclopedia. He is currently at work on a number of projects including a song cycle with Steven Serpa inspired by Benjamin Britten's Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, an opera libretto based on the Demeter / Persephone myth, The Life of the Bee, They Say: A Commonplace Book on Poetry and the Spirit, and a series of illustrated children's books. Beam appeared in 2002 at Carnegie Hall to read his Life of the Bee poems for the premiere performance of Lee Hoiby's Life of the Bee song-cycle. The cycle continues to be performed on the national and international stage."