John Burroughs – National Beat Poetry Festival 2020 – Watch Here

John Burroughs is a nationally-touring poet and performer from the Cleveland area and the author of over a dozen poetry books including Loss and Foundering, Water Works, Electric Company, Beat Attitude and The Eater of the Absurd. In various past lives, John’s blog was ranked #1 on MySpace, he won the first poetry slam he ever competed in, he served as playwright-in-residence for the Ministry of Theatre at Marion Correctional Institution, and he co-founded the infamous monthly Lix and Kix Poetry Extravaganza and almost-annual Snoetry: A Winter Wordfest. John has edited Cheap and Easy Magazine, two Best Cleveland Poem Competition anthologies, two Hessler Street Fair Poetry anthologies, the Oct Tongue literary annual, and the anti-censorship collection Fuck Poetry. He is perhaps most proud of his work since 2008 as the founding editor of Crisis Chronicles Press. You may find him on Facebook and at www.crisischronicles.com.