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Michael Ray Burch (born February 19, 1958) is an American poet.
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Michael Ray Burch (born February 19, 1958) is an American poet.
Michael R. Burch (born February 19, 1958) is an American computer company executive, [1] poet, [2] columnist, [3] essayist [4] and editor [5] who lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Also a peace activist, he is the author of the Burch-Elberry Peace Initiative, [6] which has been published online by United Progressives and the National Forum of India. On October 21, 2010, Burch presented the Burch-Elberry Peace Initiative to Aziz Mekouar, the Moroccan Ambassador to the United States, at a reception [7] held in the Grand Ballroom of Nashville's Vanderbilt Plaza hotel. Burch was also one of the featured speakers at a Freedom Walk [8] for Palestinians held on October 10, 2009, in Nashville.
Burch has been very active in the poetry movements known as New Formalism and Neo-Romanticism. When Kevin N. Roberts founded and launched the poetry journal Romantics Quarterly, he selected five poems by Burch to lead off the premier issue (Winter 2001), and Burch had three or more poems in each of the first eight issues. Burch also encouraged contemporary formalists he had published, such as Richard Moore, Rhina Espaillat, Jack Butler, Annie Finch, A. E. Stallings and Harvey Stanbrough to contribute to Romantics Quarterly. After Romantics Quarterly ceased publication, Burch published a number of the journal's best poems through his literary website The HyperTexts , which has been online for two decades and according to Google Analytics has received more than 9.8 million page views since 2010. In addition to the poets named above, Burch has also published Jared Carter, R. S. Gwynn, Julie Kane, X. J. Kennedy, Jan Schreiber, Tom Merrill, Joseph S. Salemi and other formalist poets of note.
Burch's poems, essays, articles, and letters have appeared in publications such as TIME, [9] USA Today, [10] Writer's Digest, [11] Writer's Journal, Writer's Gazette, The Lyric, Light Quarterly, Measure, Poet Lore, The Raintown Review, Trinacria, Ancient Cypress Press, [12] The New Formalist, [13] and hundreds of other literary journals. He had a weekly column in Nashville's City Paper, [3] for three years until it folded in 2013. He is an editor and publisher of Holocaust, Hiroshima, Trail of Tears, Darfur and Nakba poetry. He has also translated poetry from Old English [14] and other languages into modern English. Poets translated by Burch include Basho, Bertolt Brecht, Robert Burns, [15] [16] William Dunbar, Allama Iqbal, Ono no Komachi, Miklós Radnóti, [17] Rainer Maria Rilke, Renée Vivien and Sappho. [18]
Burch is married to Elizabeth Harris Burch, a singer and actress; they have a son, Jeremy Michael Burch, who is a musician, singer and actor.
Michael R. Burch has five Pushcart Prize nominations, from The Aurorean, Romantics Quarterly, The Raintown Review, Trinacria, and Victorian Violet Press. His poem "Ordinary Love" won the 2001 Algernon Charles Swinburne Poetry Award. Altogether, he has won seven poetry contests and received awards in 42 writing contests. [11] [19] [20] .
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