July 15th Poetry Speaks in Evansville; July 23-28 NFSPS Conference in Albuquerque

It's been a busy and beautiful past 24 hours between the Ohio Poetry Association's annual picnic and our OPA board retreat. Now I'm back home to take a couple of breaths before hitting the road again tomorrow.

Very much looking forward to sharing the stage with Jennifer Browne on Tuesday 7/15 during Poetry Speaks Dog Days at the Bokeh Lounge in Evansville, Indiana, before heading south to Vicksburg, Mississippi, and then west to Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the National Federation of State Poetry Societies' annual conference.

My new chapbook, Awash, released today as part of Pure Sleeze Press' summer drop

My latest chapbook, Awash, dropped at 1 a.m. from Pure Sleeze Press, alongside chaps by John Dorsey, Jason Ryberg, Scott Laudati, and Tony Brewer! A very limited edition. Collect them all at

puresleezepress.bigcartel.com.

Poems in Awash:

Faithwalking
Darshan
Shaktipat
Bilateral Heart Moon Resolution
Aura
Beacon
Hunger
A Wait, A Final Fall
Deluge
Critical Condition
A Superior Stimulant
But for Now
Potential Energy
Selkie

ISBN: 979-8-88596-400-5. 

So much gratitude to Jonathan S Baker, K Arizona, and Antoine Ball of Pure Sleeze.

July 12: Ohio Poetry Association Picnic at Sandy Ridge Reservation

Join us July 12th at the Lorain County Metroparks' Sandy Ridge Reservation in North Ridgeville, Ohio for the Ohio Poetry Association's annual picnic, featuring readings by co-Ohio Poet of the Year Barbara Sabol (Watermark) and recent Cleveland Heights Poet Laureate Ray McNiece (Bone Key Sutra), shorter readings by OPA members with recent publications, plus open mic.

Picnic begins at 12:30 p.m. in the park's Johnson Wetlands Center.

Preceded at 10 a.m. by OPA's quarterly business meeting (all members welcome).

6195 Otten Road
North Ridgeville, Ohio 44039

My "Silence in Mourning" is Poem of the Week in BeatLife Magazine

So much gratitude to BeatLife magazine for featuring my piece "Silence in Mourning" as their poem of the week. Though written in March, it appears, in an unforeseen coincidence, mere days after the death of my biological father, Arnold. 

Read the poem and its backstory at https://beatlife.org/poem-of-the-week-by-john-burroughs.

BeatLife is the official magazine of the National Beat Poetry Foundation, Inc.

Five of My Poems Appear in Book 2 of Bards of a Feather

I am grateful to curator Joji Mathew and editors Rhys Hughes and Beena Vijayalakshmy for their work on the lovely new book Bards of a Feather: Wings of Golden Syllables, Book 2 (published by Writingwaters Global), which includes five of my poems: "Elohim," "Call of Poetry," "With a Clatter," "Prophecies of Disaster," and "Jay in December."