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.
Saturday, August 17, 2024
National and International Beat Poetry Festival: August 30th through September 1st
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!
Friday, July 12, 2024
Back in the Saddle in July: Evansville, Insomniacathon & WV Writers
Thursday, June 27, 2024
June 29th: M.J. Arcangelini & Friends and Ground & Sky Poetry
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
Sunday, June 2, 2024
New work in VOICES 2024: D.R. Wagner Memorial Issue
Grateful for the opportunity to be a contributor to this wondrous volume celebrating our friend D.R. Wagner. Thank you, Dave Boles and Cold River Press!
From the editor:
Friday, April 26, 2024
May 8th: Burroughs, Jusek and Minney at Mac's Backs Books
ABOUT JEREMY JUSEK
1820 Coventry Road
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
216-321-2665
www.macsbacks.com
Monday, April 22, 2024
My voice appears in Fin Hall's new Gary Snyder tribute film
Honored to be a spectral voice reciting a stanza by Gary Snyder in this new film by Fin Hall. Find me around the 11.50 mark.
Permalink: https://youtu.be/ZN-BhRoMoTY.
Sunday, March 31, 2024
April 6th in South Euclid: A Gathering of Laurels II
A Gathering of Laurels II
Ohio Poets Laureate read from their work for National Poetry Month
on Saturday, April 06, 2024 from
2:00pm to 3:30pm EDT
at the South Euclid-Lyndhurst Branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library.
Join us as Poets Laureate from around Ohio share their work. Doc
Janning, the Inaugural Poet Laureate of the City of South Euclid, will
emcee the event. Books will be available for sale and signing, and we'll
celebrate with light refreshments.
Featured poets:
John Burroughs, Beat Poet Laureate Emeritus of Ohio and the U.S.
Sandra Feen, Beat Poet Laureate of Ohio
Doc Janning, Inaugural Poet Laureate of South Euclid and Third Poet
Laureate of Cuyahoga County
Jeremy Jusek, Poet Laureate of Parma
Jonie McIntire, Poet Laureate of Lucas County
Ray McNiece, Poet Laureate Emeritus of Cleveland Heights
Dr. Mary Weems, Poet Laureate Emeritus of Cleveland Heights
https://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/9574197
Writers Center Conference Room
South Euclid, Ohio 44121
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Video of The Muse's Mic: Ep 3. A conversation with John Burroughs
Sunday, March 24, 2024
Tune in on 3/27 for the The Muse's Mic, Episode 3, feat. John Burroughs
Conversations with Creative Minds: Writers, Musicians, visual artists, and more.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvdeqppjMiGdeh_WfpUoojn_AOY02zmbHu
https://www.facebook.com/spofest/live/
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Two pieces in Night Owl Narrative (a Cajun Mutt rag) No.3
Order your copy here:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CVF469HX.