John Burroughs

The National Beat Poetry Foundation selected John Burroughs to serve as their 2022-2023 U.S. National Beat Poet Laureate. He previously served for two years as Beat Poet Laureate for Ohio. Burroughs is the author of The Wrest of the Worthwhile [2023, Far Queue Press], Rattle and Numb: Selected and New Poems [2019, Venetian Spider Press], and more than a dozen chapbooks. He has curated several regular reading series in the Greater Cleveland area and currently moderates the northeast Ohio literary calendar at clevelandpoetry.com. Since 2008, he has spearheaded Crisis Chronicles Press, publishing more than 120 titles by vital independent voices.