John Burroughs,
a.k.a. Jesus Crisis, is a pacifist, poet, playwright, musician, composer, bibliophile, and seeker in Elyria, Ohio.
Co-founder (with Dianne Borsenik) of the monthly Lix and Kix Poetry Extravaganza and the annual winter wordfest known as Snoetry, John is also the
founding editor and publisher for Crisis Chronicles Press and a regular contributor to the Cleveland
Poetics and Ohio Poetry Association blogs. Since 2011 he has served as the OPA's webmaster pro tem.
John founded a loose association called Poets of Lorain County, under whose auspices he's hosted regular open mic and
featured poet events at the Avon Lake Public Library and the Lorain Arts Council's
737 Gallery, as well as the PoetryElyria series at Jim's Coffeehouse and Diner, the Scott M. Duncan
Photography studio and other venues in his hometown.
John's work has appeared on stages in four states, as well as in numerous journals, and he is the author of six poetry chapbooks, including:
3/24/2009 5:43 AM
chris wrote:
*smile* love that poet's can take lib'rty with spelling if we want. Why no poetry low-ku for world poetry day? Reply to this
3/24/2009 7:41 AM
Jesus Crisis wrote:
Perhaps it was Shelley who said "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." Not sure that's true, but.... This is all the low-ku I could muster for WPD. Of course I was totally unaware it was "officially" WPD until late in the evening. Reply to this
Grabonzo beans tonite
yes he said Grabonzo
new word Grabonzo
(for World Poetry Day)
Yes, wrote yesterday
Yes, of course, I wrote today... Read More
Tomorrow, yes, too!
(and yes, I AM from the John Burroughs school of wordplay, lol... although I am but an humble grasshopper at this stage)
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every day is
every day
is
every day is poetry!
Good cheese begets more!
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Cheese us, Crisis!
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cheese and grabonzo beans
medium jack and read lentils
eye did not write a poem
on world poetry day for yentls
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Haha! I like it, Charles.
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*smile* love that poet's can take lib'rty with spelling if we want.
Why no poetry low-ku for world poetry day?
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Perhaps it was Shelley who said "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." Not sure that's true, but.... This is all the low-ku I could muster for WPD. Of course I was totally unaware it was "officially" WPD until late in the evening.
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