John B. Burroughs of Cleveland served as the 2022-2023 U.S. National Beat Poet Laureate and the 2019-2021 Ohio Beat Poet Laureate. He is a dynamic performer who has wowed audiences from Oakland to New York City and myriad points in between. His dozen plus books include, most recently, Rattle and Numb: Selected and New Poems, 1992-2019 (2019, Venetian Spider Press), You Can't Trust It to Remain [2022, Between Shadows Press] and Dogging Catastrophe [2022, The Grind Stone]. He is currently 2nd Vice President for the Ohio Poetry Association, maintains the Cleveland Poetics blog and Northeast Ohio literary calendar at www.clevelandpoetry.com [2], and has served since 2008 as the founding editor for Crisis Chronicles Press, publishing over one hundred books by esteemed writers from around the world. Find him on Facebook, Twitter (@jesuscrisis) or at www.crisischronicles.com [3].

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