garydaleburns – G.D. Burns, Poet-Educator

In recognition of, celebration in, and reflection upon 25 years of writing poetry (once this August arrives), I began two months ago on March 14th to recite the poems of my past on Tuesday evenings, each evening sharing one year of poetry. The first seven nights were on IG Live, my very first time using this service, but because of the limitations of ownership and control available to users through Zuckerberg’s monster Meta, I have moved the Tuesday evening recitations to my YouTube channel, a website that remains a halfway decent “location” for creators and communities on the Internet.

This Tuesday, May 16th, at 8 PM EST, I’ll be reciting the 10th night of poems, these from the year 2008, when I was 22 and 23. Tune in and join a small but growing community of interested persons in witnessing the evolution of a poet, unabashed and unfiltered, the poor compositions and the great, as I openly share the trace of poetic concerns that have developed and made me the poet I am today.

In my last three years of composing poetry, a bevel of new expression has given an edge to the language that has appeared beneath my pen. Concluding an exploration of themes of space travel that has reached back into my childhood and moving forward along the horizon line of our possible future in the stars, the above manuscript has been arranged and titled “Hugh Melody & Other Voices.”

I am approaching a number of poetry presses and publisher’s contests in order to find a home for the manuscript while I attend reading series in NYC that might afford an opportunity to test these compositions on an audience. I can be contacted directly if there are interested writers, readers and publishers out there who support emerging poets in finding homes for their work.

A selection of poems have been recited and recorded using Soundcloud and can be heard here for a taste of my style.

Periodic updates on future work, readings or forthcoming publication in journals will be posted here.

Happy reading – GDB

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