Showing posts with label Nervous Dog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nervous Dog. Show all posts

Monday, October 1, 2018

Video: John Burroughs 9/28/2018 at Nervous Dog in Akron

Many thanks to Michael DeBenedictis for recording this video of my 28 September reading at Nervous Dog Coffee on Market Street in Akron. The poems included are "Mark This," "Odd Missive," part one of "Lit (Er, a Tour)," "A Wrinkle in Time" and "Identity Crisis."


Video permalink: https://youtu.be/Ro_vFZ82skA.

Sunday, September 23, 2018

Thank You and Next Up

Sandra Feen, Jodie Summers & me in Monroe

What a great reading the other night (9/21) at Serendipitous Vintage in Monroe, Michigan. Super grateful to Leo Todd Jarret for inviting me. I loved performing with him, Dan Denton, William F. DeVault, Gary Bond, Sandra Feen, Barry Graham, Dave Caruso, Mackenzie Swanson, Bob Phillips, Jodie L Summers, Arnold Koester and more. A poetry event that lasted till nearly 2 a.m. has rarely felt so good.


My next gig is September 28th at Nervous Dog Coffee Bar in Akron with assorted kick-ass word artists including Kisha Nicole Foster and Raymond McNiece, hosted by Michael DeBenedictis. For more info on this event, please see: https://www.facebook.com/events/374767589725398/.





Monday, April 9, 2018

Noise Update

Jessie Herzfeld, John Burroughs & Shelley Chernin
perform "Speaking in Lungs" 4/8/2018 at Mahall's
[photo by Rob Galo]
After my last few readings (Nervous Dog, Ekphrastacy and the NightBallet book release) were so serious (the subject matter of my new book lends itself to that) I decided to just have fun yesterday at Noise Lunch and be a bit of a goof. Fortunately I had amazing collaborators in Jessie Herzfeld and Shelley Chernin. Thanks to Lisa Miralia and Margo Emm for pulling together such an unforgettable happening. After three great poetic events in the past four days and spending every spare moment this week trying to get Smith's book to the printer on deadline (a mission accomplished early this morning), I'm glad to have a down half-day to start catching up on a bunch of neglected miscellany that I'd like to get done before I go out of town Thursday. Maybe I'll even find an hour to read the news and take Leda for a walk. Stay tuned for a blog post about Smith's magnum opus, Where Never Was Already Is, the biggest book Crisis Chronicles Press has ever published. It's not only massive, but masterful. Lucky me!

Sunday, April 1, 2018

Video: my reading 4/30/2018 at the Nervous Dog in Akron

Thanks to Michael DeBenedictis for recording my reading the other night at Nervous Dog Coffee Bar in Akron,Ohio. PG-13 so you can share it with your kids and pets and mother:

https://www.facebook.com/100009675966867/videos/617068495292344/

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