John Burroughs
@jburroughs.bsky.social
Recent US Beat Poet Laureate
Founding editor, Crisis Chronicles Press
Vice President, Ohio Poetry Association
Hillbuckeye. Skeptic. Creative. Better woke than asleep.
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Founding editor, Crisis Chronicles Press
Vice President, Ohio Poetry Association
Hillbuckeye. Skeptic. Creative. Better woke than asleep.
https://linktr.ee/johnburroughs 🏳️🌈
Today at the South Euclid-Lyndhurst branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library, sponsored by the Ohio Poetry Association: attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/13881294. Walk-ins welcome.
November 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Today at the South Euclid-Lyndhurst branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library, sponsored by the Ohio Poetry Association: attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/13881294. Walk-ins welcome.
It was a distinct pleasure to read with Susan Nusbaum and be part of such a warm and bright group of folks at the Center for Inquiry in Amherst, New York, last night. Thanks so much to Ryki Zuckerman for hosting (and taking these photos).
Viva the Literary Café at CFI!
Viva the Literary Café at CFI!
November 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
It was a distinct pleasure to read with Susan Nusbaum and be part of such a warm and bright group of folks at the Center for Inquiry in Amherst, New York, last night. Thanks so much to Ryki Zuckerman for hosting (and taking these photos).
Viva the Literary Café at CFI!
Viva the Literary Café at CFI!
I was happy to discover these seven issues of The Smith from the early '70s at Paper Peddlars in South Euclid last week. The Smith was published by poet Harry Smith in New York from 1964 to 1974. These are special issues 10, 15, 17, 19, 20, 22-23, and 29. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S...
November 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I was happy to discover these seven issues of The Smith from the early '70s at Paper Peddlars in South Euclid last week. The Smith was published by poet Harry Smith in New York from 1964 to 1974. These are special issues 10, 15, 17, 19, 20, 22-23, and 29. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S...
Poet David Adams reads at Protect Geauga Parks' Heroes of Conservation event this afternoon.
November 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Poet David Adams reads at Protect Geauga Parks' Heroes of Conservation event this afternoon.
A marvelous night of poetry yesterday at the McConnell Arts Center, hosted by @ohiopoetry.bsky.social, spearheaded by Susann Moeller and emceed by Zach Hannah. I donated Crisis Chronicles Press titles by Ohio-connected authors as prizes. Thanks to everyone who came out!
October 31, 2025 at 11:44 PM
A marvelous night of poetry yesterday at the McConnell Arts Center, hosted by @ohiopoetry.bsky.social, spearheaded by Susann Moeller and emceed by Zach Hannah. I donated Crisis Chronicles Press titles by Ohio-connected authors as prizes. Thanks to everyone who came out!
More books brought home in recent daze:
Asylum by Jill Bialosky,
A Gathering of Poets ed. by Maggie Anderson & Alex Gildzen,
Blind Horse by Jeanne Bryner,
Grief Songs by Jack Foley,
Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith,
Clamor by Elyse Fenton.
Asylum by Jill Bialosky,
A Gathering of Poets ed. by Maggie Anderson & Alex Gildzen,
Blind Horse by Jeanne Bryner,
Grief Songs by Jack Foley,
Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith,
Clamor by Elyse Fenton.
October 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
More books brought home in recent daze:
Asylum by Jill Bialosky,
A Gathering of Poets ed. by Maggie Anderson & Alex Gildzen,
Blind Horse by Jeanne Bryner,
Grief Songs by Jack Foley,
Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith,
Clamor by Elyse Fenton.
Asylum by Jill Bialosky,
A Gathering of Poets ed. by Maggie Anderson & Alex Gildzen,
Blind Horse by Jeanne Bryner,
Grief Songs by Jack Foley,
Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith,
Clamor by Elyse Fenton.
I'm pleased that two of my poems 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 between these covers. Advance sale discount price is only $10 at mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/nort...
October 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I'm pleased that two of my poems 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 between these covers. Advance sale discount price is only $10 at mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/nort...
Next up - October 26th on Zoom - My friend Carolyn Srygley-Moore 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 reading in support. Join us!
Details: www.facebook.com/events/15274...
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Details: www.facebook.com/events/15274...
www.facebook.com/share/v/162R...
October 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Next up - October 26th on Zoom - My friend Carolyn Srygley-Moore 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 reading in support. Join us!
Details: www.facebook.com/events/15274...
www.facebook.com/share/v/162R...
Details: www.facebook.com/events/15274...
www.facebook.com/share/v/162R...
What a fantastic event last night at Gramercy Books Bexley featuring Ohio's three Poets Laureate so far, Kari Gunter-Seymour, Dave Lucas, and Amit Majmudar. We are so fortunate to have had such good people serving in the position.
Photos courtesy of the amazing @karigunterseymour.bsky.social
Photos courtesy of the amazing @karigunterseymour.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
What a fantastic event last night at Gramercy Books Bexley featuring Ohio's three Poets Laureate so far, Kari Gunter-Seymour, Dave Lucas, and Amit Majmudar. We are so fortunate to have had such good people serving in the position.
Photos courtesy of the amazing @karigunterseymour.bsky.social
Photos courtesy of the amazing @karigunterseymour.bsky.social
One of many highlights at this past weekend's @lityoungstown.bsky.social Fall Literary Festival was the Saturday evening featured reading by Lauren Camp, Todd Davis, and Kortney Morrow. So many thanks to Karen Schubert and her team for making this one of the best fests ever!
October 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
One of many highlights at this past weekend's @lityoungstown.bsky.social Fall Literary Festival was the Saturday evening featured reading by Lauren Camp, Todd Davis, and Kortney Morrow. So many thanks to Karen Schubert and her team for making this one of the best fests ever!
From the Lit Youngstown Fall Lit Fest:
A Little Devil in America by Abdurraqib;
Swan Wife by Wagner;
Coffin Honey and
Household of Water, Moon & Snow by Davis;
Breakdown by Bonta;
Tomas Tranströmer Comes to Ohio by Miltner;
The Many Hundreds of the Scent by McCrae;
One Turn Around the Sun by Seibles
A Little Devil in America by Abdurraqib;
Swan Wife by Wagner;
Coffin Honey and
Household of Water, Moon & Snow by Davis;
Breakdown by Bonta;
Tomas Tranströmer Comes to Ohio by Miltner;
The Many Hundreds of the Scent by McCrae;
One Turn Around the Sun by Seibles
October 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
From the Lit Youngstown Fall Lit Fest:
A Little Devil in America by Abdurraqib;
Swan Wife by Wagner;
Coffin Honey and
Household of Water, Moon & Snow by Davis;
Breakdown by Bonta;
Tomas Tranströmer Comes to Ohio by Miltner;
The Many Hundreds of the Scent by McCrae;
One Turn Around the Sun by Seibles
A Little Devil in America by Abdurraqib;
Swan Wife by Wagner;
Coffin Honey and
Household of Water, Moon & Snow by Davis;
Breakdown by Bonta;
Tomas Tranströmer Comes to Ohio by Miltner;
The Many Hundreds of the Scent by McCrae;
One Turn Around the Sun by Seibles
Thanks to @mothergusa.bsky.social for this photo of me reading my protest poem "What They Did" on the opening night of this weekend's @lityoungstown.bsky.social Fall Literary Festival. Such a full and fulfilling several days!
October 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Thanks to @mothergusa.bsky.social for this photo of me reading my protest poem "What They Did" on the opening night of this weekend's @lityoungstown.bsky.social Fall Literary Festival. Such a full and fulfilling several days!
The Lit Youngstown Fall Literary Festival kicked off with a glow.
October 17, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The Lit Youngstown Fall Literary Festival kicked off with a glow.
Grateful to get some great art in the mail from Victor Clevenger!
October 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Grateful to get some great art in the mail from Victor Clevenger!
AncestryDNA just updated my results with more specifics.
October 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
AncestryDNA just updated my results with more specifics.
Shadow basil on the kitchen wall
October 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Shadow basil on the kitchen wall
Buffalo friends, I look forward to returning to your area on 5 November 2025 to read with Susan Nusbaum for the Literary Café at CFI (Center for Inquiry) in Amherst, New York. My final in-person reading of 2025!
Many thanks to Ryki Zuckerman!
Many thanks to Ryki Zuckerman!
October 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Buffalo friends, I look forward to returning to your area on 5 November 2025 to read with Susan Nusbaum for the Literary Café at CFI (Center for Inquiry) in Amherst, New York. My final in-person reading of 2025!
Many thanks to Ryki Zuckerman!
Many thanks to Ryki Zuckerman!
Lit goodies I'm happy to have picked up in recent daze!
Kitchen Hymns by Pádraig Ó Tuama;
NIGHT IN {a} FAIR REPUBLIC by RA Washington;
The Roads at Night Looked Like Our Futures edited by Theresa Gottl Brightman;
The Place of Dead Roads & The Adding Machine by Burroughs;
Chinese Rhyme-Prose.
Kitchen Hymns by Pádraig Ó Tuama;
NIGHT IN {a} FAIR REPUBLIC by RA Washington;
The Roads at Night Looked Like Our Futures edited by Theresa Gottl Brightman;
The Place of Dead Roads & The Adding Machine by Burroughs;
Chinese Rhyme-Prose.
October 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Lit goodies I'm happy to have picked up in recent daze!
Kitchen Hymns by Pádraig Ó Tuama;
NIGHT IN {a} FAIR REPUBLIC by RA Washington;
The Roads at Night Looked Like Our Futures edited by Theresa Gottl Brightman;
The Place of Dead Roads & The Adding Machine by Burroughs;
Chinese Rhyme-Prose.
Kitchen Hymns by Pádraig Ó Tuama;
NIGHT IN {a} FAIR REPUBLIC by RA Washington;
The Roads at Night Looked Like Our Futures edited by Theresa Gottl Brightman;
The Place of Dead Roads & The Adding Machine by Burroughs;
Chinese Rhyme-Prose.
Good to receive my contributor's copy of Stormwash: Environmental Poems, Volume Two (Seaker Press). Thank you to editor Hiromi Yoshida. Important work. The book release happens this Thursday, October 9th, in Bloomington, Indiana.
Stormwash: Environmental Poems Showcase: facebook.com/events/s/sto...
Stormwash: Environmental Poems Showcase: facebook.com/events/s/sto...
October 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Good to receive my contributor's copy of Stormwash: Environmental Poems, Volume Two (Seaker Press). Thank you to editor Hiromi Yoshida. Important work. The book release happens this Thursday, October 9th, in Bloomington, Indiana.
Stormwash: Environmental Poems Showcase: facebook.com/events/s/sto...
Stormwash: Environmental Poems Showcase: facebook.com/events/s/sto...
I'm particularly grateful that these books have recently found their way into my life.
Lazarus by Jason Baldinger,
Untelling (Summer 2025),
Dandarians by Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh,
Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly,
On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac,
Game by M.L. Williams.
Lazarus by Jason Baldinger,
Untelling (Summer 2025),
Dandarians by Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh,
Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly,
On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac,
Game by M.L. Williams.
October 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I'm particularly grateful that these books have recently found their way into my life.
Lazarus by Jason Baldinger,
Untelling (Summer 2025),
Dandarians by Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh,
Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly,
On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac,
Game by M.L. Williams.
Lazarus by Jason Baldinger,
Untelling (Summer 2025),
Dandarians by Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh,
Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly,
On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac,
Game by M.L. Williams.
Happy to be on the bill with a barrelful of stellar folks for next July's GonzoFest in New York! It'll be my first reading in that fair city since 2019. For the full lineup, see www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
October 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Happy to be on the bill with a barrelful of stellar folks for next July's GonzoFest in New York! It'll be my first reading in that fair city since 2019. For the full lineup, see www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
Some of the books I brought home from Maryland:
The Elsewhere Oracle by Michele Battiste,
Qila-Kolis and Ild-Irys by Todd Sanders,
Backbone Mountain Review 2025,
Gravity by Lynn(e) Schmidt,
How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen? by Lori Jakiela,
and Samsara Magazine #25.
The Elsewhere Oracle by Michele Battiste,
Qila-Kolis and Ild-Irys by Todd Sanders,
Backbone Mountain Review 2025,
Gravity by Lynn(e) Schmidt,
How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen? by Lori Jakiela,
and Samsara Magazine #25.
September 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Some of the books I brought home from Maryland:
The Elsewhere Oracle by Michele Battiste,
Qila-Kolis and Ild-Irys by Todd Sanders,
Backbone Mountain Review 2025,
Gravity by Lynn(e) Schmidt,
How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen? by Lori Jakiela,
and Samsara Magazine #25.
The Elsewhere Oracle by Michele Battiste,
Qila-Kolis and Ild-Irys by Todd Sanders,
Backbone Mountain Review 2025,
Gravity by Lynn(e) Schmidt,
How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen? by Lori Jakiela,
and Samsara Magazine #25.
More photos, from Saturday at the Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival. Such gratitude to the Frostburg State University Center for Literary Arts.
September 30, 2025 at 12:42 AM
More photos, from Saturday at the Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival. Such gratitude to the Frostburg State University Center for Literary Arts.
More photos from Saturday night at the Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival in Frostburg, which included a killer show by The Downstrokes with Controlled Chaos.
September 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
More photos from Saturday night at the Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival in Frostburg, which included a killer show by The Downstrokes with Controlled Chaos.
Another highlight of this weekend's Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival was having the privilege of hearing and reading with poet Marty Williams at Frostburg's City Place on Saturday afternoon. (Photo by Jen Browne.)
September 29, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Another highlight of this weekend's Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival was having the privilege of hearing and reading with poet Marty Williams at Frostburg's City Place on Saturday afternoon. (Photo by Jen Browne.)