You can read it here.
Learn more about Poets Against Racism and Hate USA at poetsagainstracism-usa.org.
2022-2023 U.S. National Beat Poet Laureate and Crisis Chronicles Press publisher
Learn more about Poets Against Racism and Hate USA at poetsagainstracism-usa.org.
CAW - Poetry by a Murder of Writers, edited by Stasha Strange and Hyacinthe L. Raven [Ix Studios].
Ohio Bards: Poetry Anthology 2024, edited by James Paul Wagner [Local Gems Press].
We
just got back from the vet (sweet boy Bart has an ear infection) and
I'm still working on feverishly on catching up on myriad tasks after
four out-of-town trips and two power outages in the past month and a
half. Thursday, I hit the road again and am very much looking forward to these fab events:
30 August thru 1 September 2024 in Collinsville and Barkhamsted, Connecticut
The National Beat Poetry Foundation's annual National and International Beat Poetry Festival
will feature poets from across the United States and as far away as Europe and India. Friday's events will be held at Canton Town Hall, 4 Market
Street, 06022; Saturday's and Sunday's events will be held at 22 River
Road, 06063. Click here for more details.
3 September 2024 in Lowell, Massachusetts
Beat Night at the Worthern
House Cafe will feature PW Covington, John Burroughs, Joe Kidd and
Sheila Burke, plus Paul Richmond, hosted by new U.S. Beat Poet Laureate
Mark Lipman at 141 Worthen Street, 01852.
10 September 2024 in Corning, New York (and ONLINE)
Poets in Play
presents a featured reading by John Burroughs and open mic, co-curated
by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes and Foothills
Publishing at 79 West Market Street, 14830 (and on Zoom).
19 thru 21 September in Kent, Ohio
The Wick Poetry Center celebrates 40 years with keynote speakers Padraig Ó Tuama, Naomi Shihab Nye, Jane Hirshfield, and Adrian Matejka, plus much more.
27 & 28 September in Frostburg, Maryland
The Frostburg State University Center for Literary Arts
presents their 19th annual Western Maryland Independent Literature
Festival. Crisis Chronicles Press will have a table in the book fair.
3 October 2024 at 6 p.m. in Lexington, Kentucky
Poetry at the /'tāb-əl/ presents Matt Hart and John Burroughs, plus open mic, at Kenwick Table, 201 Owsley Avenue, 40502. More details forthcoming.
4 October 2024 at 6 p.m. in Lexington, Kentucky
Teen Howl Poetry Series
presents John Burroughs and more, plus open mic, at Third Street Stuff
& Coffee, 257 N Limestone #1, 40507. More details forthcoming.
6 October 2024 at 4 p.m. in Elizabethtown, Kentucky
A live reading and poetry open mic featuring John Burroughs, hosted by A.S. Coomer at Flywheel Brewing, 218 S Mulberry Street, 42701
Check out this pilot episode of incoming U.S. Beat Poet Laureate Mark Lipman's Endless Horizons, where he visits The Final Insomniacathon at the The Chapel of St Philip Neri in Louisville, Kentucky, last month (July 26-28). I am grateful to be included reciting a poem (a newly revised version of "Bloodshot" from Rattle and Numb).
Click here to watch the episode.
Read more about Endless Horizons at https://vagabondpoetrycaravan.blogspot.com/p/endless-horizons.html.
I'll have the joy of joining stellar poets from across the United States and as far away as Sweden at this year's National and International Beat Poetry Festival, August 30th through September 1st in Connecticut.
The National Beat Poetry Foundation has just posted their program on Facebook and I've copied it here. Hope to see you there!
I'll have the pleasure of being a small part of this very special event on Saturday, June 29th, 2024 from 5:00pm to 7:30pm at Mac's Backs Books on Coventry. Joe Arcangelini is a fine poet and friend.
From the press release:
Mac's will host a gathering of poets with readings by MJ Arcangelini and Joel Lesses on Saturday, June 29th at 5 p.m. The event is also a book release celebration for Journeys of Sacred Community: A Collection Anthology of Ground and Sky Poetry
MJ Arcangelini, born in Pennsylvania in 1952, has resided in northern California since 1979. He has published in many magazines, online journals & over a dozen anthologies. He is the author of six published collections, including Pawning My Sins publlished in 2022 by Luchador Press.
Ground and Sky Poetry is a reading series in Buffalo and Rochester, NY and was inspired by the late poet Maj Ragain from Kent.
Joel David Lesses is a counselor and the founder of Education Training Center in Buffalo, dedicated to reframing mental health distress as a potential spiritual marker and existential opportunity. He also does the Unraveling Religion podcast which focuses on spirituality, world religion, meditation and poetry.
Other poets scheduled to read include Dianne Borsenik, Chris Franke, Russ Vidrick, Steven Smith, Kathy “Lady” Smith, John Burroughs, Shelley Chernin, Ben Gulyas, Adam Brodsky, Steve Goldberg, Steve Thomas, Scott Silsbe and Chandra "Peggy Honeydew" Alderman.
Mac's Backs
1820 Coventry Rd.
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
https://www.macsbacks.com