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John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social · 2d

I had planned all year to be at Lowell Celebrates Kerouac this week but, well, it wasn't meant to be after all.

There is this, however:
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

‘Very significant’ Jack Kerouac story discovered after mafia boss auction

Exclusive: Two-page 1957 manuscript signed by author linked to his classic of beat literature On the Road

www.theguardian.com

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John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social · 2d

Well, I did like it a heck of a lot better before social networks became social media.

The latest from Dan Blank: danblank.substack.com/p/what-if-yo...

What if you gave up social media?

On ignoring the online drama, algorithms, and AI to find an authentic path forward

danblank.substack.com

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John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social · 3d

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!

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John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social · 5d

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.

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John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social · 7d

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...

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John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social · 8d

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.

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Ohio Poetry Association @ohiopoetry.bsky.social · 8d

Last call to register for what promises to be an amazing workshop by Geoff Anderson of DiVerses on Saturday October 11th at 1 p.m. both online (via Zoom) and in person at the Cooperative Chess Cultural Center in Columbus, Ohio. Sponsored by the Ohio Poetry Association.

Ohio Poetry Association @ohiopoetry.bsky.social · 19d

Just a reminder that registration is open for our 11 October quarterly workshop, "How to Write Better Using Lessons from Haiku," presented by Geoff Anderson of DiVerses. Attend virtually or in-person in Columbus, Ohio. For more information and to register, please visit www.ohiopoetryassn.org/events.

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Ohio Poetry Association @ohiopoetry.bsky.social · 10d

From our President, @mothergusa.bsky.social: "I am absolutely honored by the spirit of this collaborative event with America's River Roots & OPA and encourage poets and poetry lovers and river lovers alike to join us [in Cincinnati] where river and freedom poetry will flow on Friday 10/10 at 10am!!"

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John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social · 11d

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...

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John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social · 11d

"War is sweet to those who have no experience of it,
but the experienced man trembles exceedingly at heart on its approach." - Pindar, ancient Greek Poet

γλυκύ δ᾽ἀπείρῳ πόλεμος.
πεπειραμένων δέ τις ταρβεῖ προσιόντα νιν καρδία περισσῶς.

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John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social · 12d

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.

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John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social · 12d

More photos, from Saturday at the Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival. Such gratitude to the Frostburg State University Center for Literary Arts.

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John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social · 12d

Yes. I was nervous at first. But it seems legit and I just completed it.

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John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social · 13d

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.

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John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social · 13d

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.)

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John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social · 15d

It's about a 4-hour drive from Cleveland, but well worth it.

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John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social · 15d

The Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival continued tonight with a wonderful reading by Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh at Main Street Books in Frostburg.

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John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social · 16d

The Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival kicked off Thursday night in Frostburg with a fab reading by Lori Jakiela.

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John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social · 17d

I'm thrilled to be taking part in the Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival, presented by the FSU Center for Literary Arts this weekend in downtown Frostburg.

I'll be repping Crisis Chronicles Press all day and reading at 1 p.m. on Saturday: jesuscrisis.blogspot.com/2025/09/sept...

September 25-27 in Frostburg: Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival

Blog home of 2022-23 U.S. Beat Poet Laureate and nationally touring author John Burroughs, author of Rattle & Numb and The Wrest of the Worthwhile.

jesuscrisis.blogspot.com

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John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social · 18d

A fine reading by four northeast Ohio poet Steves at Love Coffee in Parma last night!

Goldberg, Brightman, Smith and Thomas.

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John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social · 19d

Happy to be in this film (my role is "Theodore the Poet") to be screened October 6th at the Lincoln Community Center Library, 1255 Manchester Road, in Fairview, Pennsylvania. jesuscrisis.blogspot.com/2025/09/106-...

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Ohio Poetry Association @ohiopoetry.bsky.social · 19d

Just a reminder that registration is open for our 11 October quarterly workshop, "How to Write Better Using Lessons from Haiku," presented by Geoff Anderson of DiVerses. Attend virtually or in-person in Columbus, Ohio. For more information and to register, please visit www.ohiopoetryassn.org/events.

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John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social · 19d

My Crisis Chronicles Press table at the 2025 Writers Association of Northern Appalachia conference in Wheeling, featuring 4 authors we've published who have Appalachian roots. I added in my own Rattle & Numb (published by Venetian Spider Press) for good measure. ccpress.blogspot.com/p/crisis-chr...

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John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social · 20d

Picked up some great books by great authors at the Writers Association of Northern Appalachia Conference:

Continued Cases by Richard Hague [2023, Dos Madres],
In Velvet: New and Selected Poems by Jeanne Bryner [2024, Bottom Dog],
Mrs. Nussbaum's Monkey by Frank Lehner [2025, Bottom Dog].

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John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social · 20d

What a wonderful event it was Thursday at Kent State, celebrating the release of The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America's Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders (edited by Luisa Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto, and David Hassler, via Paloma Press).

natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org

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