Next up, I'll have the privilege of sharing poetry with these fine folks on Saturday, August 13th as part of this year's Bronx Book Fair, happening on Zoom. Please send a message to Executive Director Lorraine Currelley at bronxbookfair@gmail.com to register.
The Tao of John B. Burroughs
Crisis Chronicles Press publisher, recently selected to serve as 2022-2023 U.S. National Beat Poet Laureate
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
Reading for the Bronx Book Fair August 13th
Next up, I'll have the privilege of sharing poetry with these fine folks on Saturday, August 13th as part of this year's Bronx Book Fair, happening on Zoom. Please send a message to Executive Director Lorraine Currelley at bronxbookfair@gmail.com to register.
Thursday, July 7, 2022
My July, August & September 2022 Readings
I am so looking forward to seeing friends and sharing poetry at the following special events in the next several weeks.
The Baber Mountain Poetry Festival will feature poets and musicians from throughout the Appalachian region. Baber Court, 26261.
30 July 2022 in Portsmouth, Ohio
Noise Complaint at the Warehouse
will feature live music by D.J. Everman, Commercial Television, and Soft Pain, plus poetry by Dianne Borsenik, John Burroughs, and Tony
Brewer. 2134 Gallia Street Apt. B, 45662.
31 July 2022 at 6 p.m. in Cincinnati, Ohio
Word of Mouth Cincinnati presents a reading by John Burroughs plus open mic at MOTR Pub, 1345 Main Street, 45202.
2 August 2022 at 5:30 p.m. in South Euclid, Ohio
South
Euclid poets including Doc Janning, Raja Belle Freeman, Amy Kesegich, Shelley
Chernin, Michael Ceraolo, Adrian Schnall, Amanda Terman and John Burroughs will read during the annual Bexley Bash at
Bexley Park, 1630 Wrenford Road, 44121.
6 August 2022 in Erie, Pennsylvania
Poetry during Erie's Blues & Jazz Festival will feature poets including Thasia Anne, Chuck Joy, Mabel Howard, Niecy Nicole, Dianne Borsenik, John Burroughs and an open mic at Frontier Park, 1501 W. 6th Street, 16505.
The Bronx Book Fair will present a reading by National Beat Poetry Foundation honorees including William F. DeVault, Dane Ince, Patricia Ince, Carlo Parcelli, Chryssa Velissariou, Ron Whitehead and John Burroughs, facilitated by Debbie Tosun Kilday.
2 thru 4 September 2022 in New Hartford, Connecticut
The National and International Beat Poetry Festival
will feature poets from around the world and John Burroughs will be
officially christened the U.S. National Beat Poet Laureate for
2022-2023.
10 September 2022 at 4 p.m. in Toledo, Ohio
Uncloistered Poetry presents readings by Pauletta Hansel, Mary Biddinger, Lylanne
Musselman, Miles Budimir and John Burroughs, hosted by Lucas County Poet
Laureate Jonie McIntire at The Attic, 1701 Adams Street, 43604.
Sunday, July 3, 2022
I'm participating in Tupelo Press' 30/30 this month
I am participating in Tupelo Press' 30/30 this month to raise money for their vital work and to give me an extra incentive to write daily. My first three days' poem/drafts are now online, along with those by the other participants. Many thanks to the friends who have donated so far to sponsor me in this poem-a-thon.
Anyone who donates at least $25 through my link will receive a complimentary copy of my next book when it's out as a token of my appreciation. Of course I will revise and refine these pieces later. I was tentatively planning to christen this series "30 Days in the Hole" (after Humble Pie) until I remembered that there are 31 days in July.
My goal is to raise $500 for Tupelo Press (as well as 31 poems for myself).
Friday, July 1, 2022
Athens Poet Laureate Chalks My "Half Write"
Many thanks to Athens Poet Laureate Wendy McVicker! I've been enjoying her sidewalk poem posts on Facebook and feel incredibly honored that she chose one of mine this time.
Tuesday, June 28, 2022
I've been selected to serve as the 2022-2023 U.S. Beat Poet Laureate
Immense gratitude to the National Beat Poetry Foundation and everyone who has supported me over the years and has helped me evolve and continue evolving as a poet and person.
Saturday, June 18, 2022
Performing June 21st in Evansville, Indiana!
Bokeh Lounge
1007 Parrett Street
Evansville, IN 47713.
Thursday, June 16, 2022
NFSPS Convention in Columbus Next Week!
You now have until June 19th to register for the National Federation of State Poetry Societies Convention that is happening in central Ohio on June 23rd through 26th, hosted by the Ohio Poetry Association.
Hanif Abdurraqib will be their convention Keynote speaker. If you can't attend in person, there is also an option to attend virtually.
More info: https://www.ohiopoetryassn.org/nfsps-2022-convention.
I'll be participating in two events there:
A reading by contributors to I Thought I Heard a Cardinal Sing: Ohio's Appalachian Voices on 6/23 at 8 p.m. and a Poets Laureate panel on The Power of Literary Citizenship on 6/24 at 1 p.m.
Hope to see you!
Monday, June 6, 2022
June 11th online: I Thought I Heard a Cardinal Sing anthology reading
On June 11th, the Cuyahoga County Public Library will host a reading by contributors to the new I Thought I Heard a Cardinal Sing: Ohio's Appalachian Voices anthology (edited by Ohio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour and published by Sheila-Na-Gig). This reading will take place online and we'd love for you to tune in.
Registered participants will also have the option of attending in-person at the South Euclid-Lyndhurst Branch to watch the event on a large screen.
Please register here to attend.
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
June 2nd: Pauletta Hansel, Jonie McIntire and John Burroughs at Visible Voice
I will have the distinct honor and privilege of reading with two of Ohio's finest poets, Pauletta Hansel and Jonie McIntire, on Thursday June 2nd, 7 p.m., at Visible Voice Books in Cleveland.
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Jonie McIntire, John Burroughs and Pauletta Hansel |
Pauletta Hansel’s nine poetry collections include Heartbreak Tree, a poetic exploration of the intersection of gender and place in Appalachia, published in 2022 by Madville Publishing, and Friend, Coal Town Photographand Palindrome, winner of the 2017 Weatherford Award for best Appalachian poetry, all from Dos Madres Press. She is 2022 Writer-in-Residence for The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. Her writing has been featured in Oxford American, Rattle, Appalachian Journal, The Anthology of Appalachian Writers, American Life in Poetry, Verse Daily and Poetry Daily, among others. She recently served as the inaugural Poet Laureate of Cincinnati.
Jonie McIntire, Poet Laureate of Lucas County, Ohio, is the poetry editor at Of Rust and Glass and Membership Chair with Ohio Poetry Association. Her most recent chapbook, Semidomesticated (Red Flag Poetry, 2021) won Red Flag Poetry’s 2020 chapbook contest and is being re-released by Sheila-Na-Gig Editions. Her prior chapbooks are Beyond the Sidewalk (Nightballet Press, 2017) and Not All Who Are Lost Wander (Finishing Line Press, 2016). Her poems, published in print journals, anthologies, online and even into cement, have been nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart prize. McIntire hosts a monthly reading series called Uncloistered Poetry from Toledo, Ohio.
Visible Voice Books
2258 Professor Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44113
visiblevoicebooks.com
Sunday, May 15, 2022
Video: the jojo show featuring John Burroughs
It was fun to talk with John Compton for over an hour (and also read some poems) on May 9th's episode of the jojo show. John has been talking with a different poet every day (and broadcasting these conversations live) since January.
Permalink to my episode: https://www.facebook.com/100042464478026/videos/413199673679455/.
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