March 5th at Greedy Reads in Baltimore

Though for a number of reasons my Crisis Chronicles Press is not tabling at this week's 2026 AWP Conference & Bookfair, I am happy to be one of 30 poets taking part in Tupelo Press' annual 30/30 alumni offsite reading on March 5th, 6 p.m., at Greedy Reads Remington in Baltimore!

Poets scheduled to read: Jacqueline Kolosov, Kelly DuMar, Gabby Gilliam, Rob Vance, Yvette Perry, John Burroughs, Raphael Dagold, Adela Sinclair, Jackie Craven, Matilda Young, Elizabeth Wolf, Jennifer Browne, Flower Conroy, Haley Bossé, Garrett Brown, Dominic Leach, Thomas Page, Joanne Brown, Linda Michel-Cassidy, Allison Creighton, Rebecca Morton, Moriah Cohen, Shannon Vare Christine, Linda Sands, Sullivan Summer, Christine Sears Etter, Karen Arnold, Joanna Lee, Zoe Berger, Victoria Korth, and Amy Marquez.

RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/950345927326943.

Greedy Reads Remington 320 W. 29th Street Baltimore, Maryland 21211

Appearing in DEPOSE: An Anthology of Working Class Solidarity

One of my photographs and two written pieces, "Home of the Enslaved" and "Don't Freeze," appear in this new anthology published by Mark Lipman's Vagabond Press. 

254 pages, paperback. 

Buy DEPOSE for $25 here.

I finished reading 122 books in 2025

Many of them short. Many more yet in progress.

View the whole list at https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2025/7975528.

Beat Writer's Block at Lit Youngstown's free Winter Writing Camp on February 28th

I look forward to participating in Lit Youngstown's FREE Winter Writing Camp on February 28th, where I will present a generative workshop, "Beat Writer's Block," about using inspiration from Beat authors to jumpstart your stalled writing.

Register at lityoungstown.org/winter-writing-camp.

November 15th: Get Sharp! 2025 Ohio Poetry Publishing Conference

Join the Ohio Poetry Association on November 15th from 10 to 4:30 at the Cuyahoga County Public Library's South Euclid-Lyndhurst branch for an absolutely free Ohio Poetry Publishing Conference. Registration and more details at https://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/13881294.

Get Sharp! will include an Ohio small press book fair and fab workshop presentations by Dianne Borsenik, Geoff Anderson, Michael Salinger, and Susan Grimm.

Two poems in Main Street Rag's North Coast Voices 2025: Poems of the Great Lakes

I'm pleased that two of my poems, "Add My Tears to the Bodies of Water" and "So Much for Saving," will appear in North Coast Voices 2025: Poems of the Great Lakes, edited by Chuck Joy and M Scott Douglass for Main Street Rag Publishing. So many good poets are between these covers. And if you order now, the advance sale discount price is only $10. 

https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/north-coast-voices-2025-poetry-anthology/

Video: BeatLife's Belinda Subraman interviews John Burroughs

Thanks so much to BeatLife magazine and managing editor Belinda Subraman for the conversation! ♥️

At the end of the video, I read three father/dad-adjacent poems: "17 September 1966," "Matter Waves," and "Aim High."

Permalink: https://youtu.be/mKBKyZdnHgg 

October 26 on Zoom: Watching the Potomac Burn book launch

Next up - October 26th on Zoom - my friend Carolyn Srygley-Moore (a.k.a. C Leigh Srygley) is celebrating the launch of her new book, Watching the Potomac Burn, hosted by Dane Ince, and I'm happy to be one of the poets sharing work in support. We hope you'll join us!

Details: https://www.facebook.com/events/1527480008379180.

[27 October update: I ended up reading four poems at this event: “When the Bat Signal Goes Dark,” “With Breath and Without,” “A Kiss for David Johansen,” and “Add My Tears to the Bodies of Water.”]

2025 Anthology of the River Roots Poets Published

So many thanks to Ohio Poetry Association President, Holly Brians Ragusa, for her hard work on this excellent project in collaboration with the OPA and America's River Roots. I'm thrilled to have a poem ("After Kao Ch'an") included alongside the work of so many fantastic writers! View the whole digital flipbook anthology at https://midd.me/aspt.

My Updated DNA Results

AncestryDNA just updated my results with more specifics.

Interestingly, however, a different DNA company, 23andMe, gave me slightly different results in 2021: