John Burroughs of Cleveland served as the 2022-2023 U.S. National Beat Poet Laureate and is the author of The Wrest of the Worthwhile (2023, Far Queue Press), Rattle & Numb (2019, Venetian Spider Press), and roughly twenty poetry chapbooks. He previously served for two years as Ohio’s Beat Poet Laureate. Since 2008, Burroughs has been the founding editor and publisher for Crisis Chronicles Press. He currently serves as a vice president for the Ohio Poetry Association. Find him at https://linktr.ee/johnburroughs.