Clowns

An essay I wrote is up on Agni's blog. Click here to check it out.

Teaching a Poetry Class

I'm teaching another poetry class for UCLA Extension Writer's Program. It starts in Sept, on Wednesday nights. I hope to see you there. I promise it won't be boring.

Here's a link: https://www.uclaextension.edu/pages/Course.aspx?Reg=268639

Reading at the LA Times Festival of Books

If you're going to be at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books this weekend I'm reading on the Poetry Stage, Sunday, at 1:30. I promise I won't be boring.

Book Review

Take a look at t review of I'm No Longer Troubled By The Extravagance right here.

North American Review

A piece I wrote for the North American Review blog, take a look here:

http://northamericanreview.org/writing-experiments-rick-bursky/

The Relentless

The Relentless

One day we’ll know how long

the dead have to be dead

before they feel hunger.

One day it’ll be summer forever.

In the meantime, the weather,

looking for its cue, keeps an eye on me;

and I keep whatever money’s in my pocket

crumpled in a ball. A relentless

responsibility dogs me, and the funny thing

is, these are the lyrics to a happy song.

Go ahead, tap your foot,

snap your fingers.

We’re roasting a pig in the yard.

I’m No Longer Troubled By the Extravagance, BOA Editions, 2015

Gettysburg Review, Vol. 25, No 2 Spring 2012

Apologies

I haven't posted anything in a while. I promise I'll try, really try, to be better.