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John Burroughs [1]

Listed as: 
Poet, Spoken Word Artist
Public address: 
Cleveland, OH
Ohio US
Email: 
jc@crisischronicles.com
Bio: 

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].

[Last updated 9/25/2024]

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Twitter/X: 
jesuscrisis
Born in: 
Richwood, WV
West Virginia
Raised in: 
Elyria, OH
Ohio
RSS feed: 
http://jesuscrisis.blogspot.com/feeds/po… [4]
Website: 
https://linktr.ee/johnburroughs [5]
Prizes won: 

U.S. Beat Poet Laureate (2022-2023)
Ohio Beat Poet Laureate (2019-2021)
Winner of Ohio City Writers' Love Is a Burning Thing poetry contest (2013)
Finalist in Writer's Digest's Red Heart :: Black Heart Contest (2009)
Six poems nominated for the Pushcart Prize
Chosen Midview High School's best poet (1983)

What I'm reading now: 
Collected Prose by Paul Auster
A Black Voice in the Wilderness by Mwatabu Okantah
Ulysses by James Joyce
Identifies as: 
American
Appalachian
LGBTQ
Prefers to work with: 
Any

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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/john_burroughs [2] http://www.clevelandpoetry.com [3] http://www.crisischronicles.com [4] http://jesuscrisis.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default [5] https://linktr.ee/johnburroughs