The Tao of John B. Burroughs
2022-2023 U.S. National Beat Poet Laureate and Crisis Chronicles Press publisher
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
My "Cause of Death" nominated for a Pushcart Prize
Saturday, November 2, 2024
11/23 in Bedford, Ohio: Book signing/reading for CAW - Poetry by a Murder of Writers
November 23rd, 1 p.m., at Spirit Apotheosis (691 Broadway Ave.) in Bedford, Ohio, I will join Stasha Strange in a reading and signing to celebrate the newly published CAW - Poetry by a Murder of Writers.
More event info at facebook.com/events/1303360140662421.
Order the book at stashastrange.com/books/caw.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
10/31: What Is in John's Basement? - Book and Online Halloween Event
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
My poem "What They Did" featured on the Poets Against Racism and Hate website
You can read it here.
Learn more about Poets Against Racism and Hate USA at poetsagainstracism-usa.org.
Sunday, October 13, 2024
Recently published in Shabdaguchha, Ohio Bards, and CAW: Poetry by a Murder of Writers
Shabdaguchha/শব্দগুচ্ছ (26th Anniversary Issue), edited by Hassanal Abdullah [Shabdaguchha Press].
- features my poems "Where Would the Moment Be?" and "What If This Is the Last Poem I Ever Write and It's Not Finished?" alongside work by poets from seventeen countries including Bengt O Björklund, William Heyen, Hassanal Abdullah, George Wallace, and more.
CAW - Poetry by a Murder of Writers, edited by Stasha Strange and Hyacinthe L. Raven [Ix Studios].
- features my poems "Cause and Effect," "Cause Célèbre," and "Cause of Death" alongside work by S.A. Quinox, Christiane Knight, Stasha Strange, Michael Cunliffe, Tara Vanflower, Kaytee Thrun, Rachel M. Croce, Tara Shannon, D.L. White, Emma Lee, Lisa Taner, Rachael Ikins, and Hyacinthe L. Raven.
Ohio Bards: Poetry Anthology 2024, edited by James Paul Wagner [Local Gems Press].
- features a revised version of my poem "Two Against Nature" alongside work by Jessica Weyer Bentley, Jeffrey Bowen, Rachel M. Croce, Christen Lee, A.M. Hayden, David Lee Garrison, Les Epstein, Sandra Feen, Joey Polisena, Stasha Strange, Cora McCann Liderbach, Diane Kendig, Carmel L. Morse, Bill Reyer, K. Weber, Georgia Reash, Cat Russell, Mary A. Turzillo, Geoffrey A. Landis, and more.
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
October 2, 3 and 6: Readings in Lexington and Elizabethtown, Kentucky
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
September 26 thru 28: Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival
Saturday, September 7, 2024
I'm joining the Ohio Poetry Association as their new second Vice President
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
To the National Beat Poetry Festival this weekend - plus more travel and coming events
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
Poets Building Bridges, hosted by George Wallace, will feature poets from Cleveland, Ohio (John Burroughs, Judith Mansour and Dianne Borsenik); Bolton, UK (Linda Downs, David Wigmore and Laura Taylor); and Flower Litter Poets (Mimi German, Karlostheunhappy and Pankhuri Sinha). Event will be broadcast on Zoom.
Saturday, August 24, 2024
Video: Mark Lipman's Endless Horizons visits Insomniacathon 2024 in Louisville, Kentucky
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.