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.
The Tao of John B. Burroughs
2022-2023 U.S. National Beat Poet Laureate and Crisis Chronicles Press publisher
Sunday, July 13, 2025
July 15th Poetry Speaks in Evansville; July 23-28 NFSPS Conference in Albuquerque
Friday, July 11, 2025
My new chapbook, Awash, released today as part of Pure Sleeze Press' summer drop
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
Thursday, July 10, 2025
July 12: Ohio Poetry Association Picnic at Sandy Ridge Reservation
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
Monday, July 7, 2025
My "Silence in Mourning" is Poem of the Week in BeatLife Magazine
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.
Saturday, July 5, 2025
Five of My Poems Appear in Book 2 of Bards of a Feather
Sunday, June 29, 2025
July 3: Open Air Poets in Cleveland Heights feat. Salinger, Chernin, & Burroughs
This Thursday, July 3rd, I'll have the distinct pleasure of reading with the amazing Michael Salinger and Shelley Chernin during Open Air Poets on the lawn outside the Coventry Village branch library in Cleveland Heights.
So many thanks to Mac's Backs-Books and the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Libraries.
Thursday, June 26, 2025
June 28: Social Justic Poetry at ComFest in Columbus
From Dr. Moeller's write up: "Besides a declared national Pride and Black Lives Matter Month, June has also been declared the Rebuild your Life Month and June 28 in particular commemorates the Ukraine Constitution Day in the United States. EOW’s poets address the reasons for those dedications and our collective as well as individual experiences with them - emotionally, culturally, socio-economically, geographically, and politically — whether hard to digest or comforting, we are looking at them under the magnifying glass of poetry which serves as yet another tool to promote inquiry, curiosity, ethics, and compassion."
ComFest happens at Goodale Park, W. Goodale Street, 43215. For more information, including the full three-day schedule, please visit https://www.comfest.com/comfest-2025/.
Thursday, June 19, 2025
June 27: With A.M. Hayden and friends on Zoom for How to Tie Tobacco launch party
Tune in at https://sinclair.zoom.us/j/83689495716.
Monday, June 9, 2025
June 14: Ellen Austin-Li & John Burroughs in Sandusky
I very much look forward to sharing poems from the same mic as friend and Cincinnati poet Ellen Austin-Li this Saturday, June 14th, at Mr. Smith's Coffee House in Sandusky, Ohio. Her new book, Incidental Pollen, was just released by Madville Publishing. I am extremely grateful to Larry Smith, the Firelands Writing Center, and Bottom Dog Press for hosting us.
140 Columbus Street
Sandusky, Ohio 44870
Friday, May 23, 2025
West Virginia Writers Conference: June 6th through 8th
Other speakers will include Colleen Anderson, Karen Salyer McElmurray, Burke Allen, Diane Tarantini, Kate Long, Tobi Doyle, Sheila Redling, Donna Kathryn Kelly, Kathleen Guire, Rhonda Browning White, Renee Nicholson, Tim Huguenin, Natalie Homer, Mike Dittman, and keynote author Homer Hickam.
More info at Conferences | West Virginia Writers, Inc.