John Burroughs is the 2019-21 Beat Poet Laureate for the State of Ohio. He has authored over a dozen books including Loss and Foundering, Water Works, Electric Company, Beat Attitude and The Eater of the Absurd. His latest, Rattle and Crumb: Selected and Uncollected Poems, will be released in 2019 by Venetian Spider Press. In various past lives, John won the first poetry slam he ever competed in, his blog was ranked #1 on MySpace, 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. He is perhaps most proud of his work since 2008 as the founding editor of Crisis Chronicles Press. Find him on Facebook, Twitter (@jesuscrisis) and at www.crisischronicles.com.