Burgi Zenhaeusern

Burgi Zenhaeusern

@burgi.bsky.social

Loves books. Writes poems. She/her For everything else, incl. WHITE DOOR order link: https://linktr.ee/burgitree PS: DM for signed/review copies Banner: shadows of cast-iron chair & plant on flagstones. Headshot: white woman (long hair, glasses) smiling

1,821 Followers 1,300 Following 1,130 Posts Joined Aug 2023
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Glad to!! 💙💙

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Zoë Ryder White | Poet of the Week | ONLY POEMS Explore poems and an in-depth interview with Zoë Ryder White, our featured poet. Discover their work, creative process, and poetic journey.

Im more excited about this project than any writing I’ve done for a long time, and so grateful to @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social for sharing seven from the series, along with an interview. They sure know how to ask a compelling and thoughtful question.♥️

onlypoems.com/poets/zoe-ry...

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17 hours ago

Also real (unfortunately): got gaslit by a publisher into believing I was being difficult when all I thought I was doing was making sure we understood each other. It's a wild world out there. 🙏💙 @hanvanderhart.bsky.social for the reminder!

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17 hours ago

Real story: submitted once to a press before really checking them out only to pull back my sub a couple of hrs later with a "so sorry not ready yet." Never looked back. Still glad.

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It's been a year since Issue 3 (which is still available!), things have been slow on my end and I'm sorry, but Postcard is still reading for Issue 4! Get some short-ish poems together and submit! www.postcardlit.com/submit

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Observations from the Bird Hide the largest lands with the quietest flourish we strive for silence dry estuary crabs burrowing in sand pelicans' slow glide sunlight slides west birds gulp fish, migrating north time flaps her dark wings

"with the quietest flourish"

@sarahstockton.bsky.social in Pelican's Daughter (MoonPath Press, 2026) for #smallPoemSunday
#bookSky 📚💙

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19 hours ago

Next Saturday!
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Image of a page with the following text: An ADHD Glossary ableism. The belief, conscious or unconscious, that there is one standard or supe rior type of body or mind and that systems should be designed to meet the needs of those who fit the perceived norm. Internalized ableism refers to how this belie can cause those with cognitive or physical disabilities to view themselves negatively and work to mask their differences rather than critiquing ableist systems. Anti-ableism is the belief that all bodies and minds have inherent value and that systems should be designed so all can navigate them with ease and be allowed to flourish. accommodations. Adjustments aimed at making existing systems (such as schools or workplaces) easier for disabled individuals to navigate. Accommoda tions can never fully close the gap since the systems that necessitate them wer typically designed around ableist principles, but they can help. Image of page with the following text: Foreword REBECCA MAKKAI In sixth grade I showed up for school one day wearing pink corduroys and a sweatshirt covered in neon swirls. This medium-cool look was fairly standard for me in 1989, as were my messy hair and dirty sneakers. I was, as usual, running late. What wasn't usual: stares and confusion from the rest of the class, someone asking, "Why are you wearing that?" Everyone else, I realized, was wearing extremely formal clothing for a Tuesday morning. Coats and ties, dark dresses, polished black shoes. I sat with them on the floor (this was a Montessori school and, thank god, I was never stuck at a desk), and someone reminded me that we were attending the funeral of our classmate's father that day. "Reminded" is a strange word here, because I had absolutely no idea that this was happening. I was very aware of this man's passing, and I might have known (I can't remember now that there was Image of book held up in front of a window. Book cover text reads “chaos, creativity, completion: new approaches to writing and ADHD, edited by Chloe Martinez and Lisa Van Orman Hadley, foreword by Rebecca Makkai”

We couldn’t find a book like this, so we made one. Officially out as of yesterday; get a copy at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... (get 30% off with code UCPNEW) #adhd #writing

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A Slow Indwelling featuring fullcover art by Megan Merchant: "Evolution" photographic image of naked person in different stages of rising from a cowering position. The image is superimposed on versions of itself, and all of it superimposed on a close-up of some unidentifiable texture (like flaking, cracked paint or something). The title and authors are inset at top. All colors are muted browns and blue-grays or gray-blues. Origin Story My son stands at the morning kitchen, asks how were people created? He doesn't want the answer, wants the silence that edges stumped questions. In our house, god is more furnace than architect. Yesterday, I bought a hatchet at the hardware store, for slim branches spidering low on our acre, and all I can imagine is it slamming into my thigh. Metal, branch, bone. Soon there will be nubs and shoots, the cold hand of winter lifting. Soon we will have a pile split and stacked for another freeze. My son asks how was the first tree made? We trace its lineage around the edges—body of my guitar, books, desk where I write. Ghost. From our window, grosbeaks and buntings tangle into flight. The hours count earlier now, because of the way they are lit. When my children are grown, will they look into the thicket of poems to find me? L, what splinters have I left that will redden and ache? As the body breaks, it is whole, or so the silent Buddhists write when describing why children die beneath burning rubble made from war machines. I wish I was the father who fought harder for peace, who believed I too could trade collective pain for promises. Pilate withered when chants of three hundred crazies called for Christ's head. The night before his wife witnessed a warning in a dream and came to him crying Let the rabbi go. I go into grocery stores followed by ghosts. My father, once, in an empty aisle looking for frozen cheesecake. My friend the next with holes in his head, mopping up spilled milk. M, why are the dead so demanding? Why, when Christ was nailed to die, did his mother watch the thorns woven, her son a slaughtered lamb? Listen: When I said boys have a storm inside, this itch that fills our teeth, I was sharing in secret. I meant we have mothers who gift us ghosts, our heads upon a trigger. We're bred to die. We're set upon a foreign field and asked to praise the blood.

What a tender exchange between @meganmerchant.bsky.social & @lukejohnsonpoet.bsky.social in their A Slow Indwelling (@smallharborpub.bsky.social, 2024)!! Sooo good! 💖
Tagging @wplseries.bsky.social where I heard them read & was gifted the book in a drawing the series does 🙏💙

#poetry #bookSky 📚💙

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2 days ago

@rholanderpoet.bsky.social, this is for you, too 😊

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A Slow Indwelling featuring fullcover art by Megan Merchant: "Evolution" photographic image of naked person in different stages of rising from a cowering position. The image is superimposed on versions of itself, and all of it superimposed on a close-up of some unidentifiable texture (like flaking, cracked paint or something). The title and authors are inset at top. All colors are muted browns and blue-grays or gray-blues. Origin Story My son stands at the morning kitchen, asks how were people created? He doesn't want the answer, wants the silence that edges stumped questions. In our house, god is more furnace than architect. Yesterday, I bought a hatchet at the hardware store, for slim branches spidering low on our acre, and all I can imagine is it slamming into my thigh. Metal, branch, bone. Soon there will be nubs and shoots, the cold hand of winter lifting. Soon we will have a pile split and stacked for another freeze. My son asks how was the first tree made? We trace its lineage around the edges—body of my guitar, books, desk where I write. Ghost. From our window, grosbeaks and buntings tangle into flight. The hours count earlier now, because of the way they are lit. When my children are grown, will they look into the thicket of poems to find me? L, what splinters have I left that will redden and ache? As the body breaks, it is whole, or so the silent Buddhists write when describing why children die beneath burning rubble made from war machines. I wish I was the father who fought harder for peace, who believed I too could trade collective pain for promises. Pilate withered when chants of three hundred crazies called for Christ's head. The night before his wife witnessed a warning in a dream and came to him crying Let the rabbi go. I go into grocery stores followed by ghosts. My father, once, in an empty aisle looking for frozen cheesecake. My friend the next with holes in his head, mopping up spilled milk. M, why are the dead so demanding? Why, when Christ was nailed to die, did his mother watch the thorns woven, her son a slaughtered lamb? Listen: When I said boys have a storm inside, this itch that fills our teeth, I was sharing in secret. I meant we have mothers who gift us ghosts, our heads upon a trigger. We're bred to die. We're set upon a foreign field and asked to praise the blood.

What a tender exchange between @meganmerchant.bsky.social & @lukejohnsonpoet.bsky.social in their A Slow Indwelling (@smallharborpub.bsky.social, 2024)!! Sooo good! 💖
Tagging @wplseries.bsky.social where I heard them read & was gifted the book in a drawing the series does 🙏💙

#poetry #bookSky 📚💙

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Joan Naviyuk Kane : with snow pouring southward past the window | Milkweed Editions When Cynthia Cruz describes Joan Naviyuk Kane’s latest collection as a series of poems that “both shows and enacts how a self is brought to being through the abyss,” I think of Kane’s own words about ...

Don't miss today's conversation with poet Joan Naviyuk Kane about her latest collection "with snow pouring southward past the window"
Audio📻❄️: milkweed.org/between-the-...
@upittpress.bsky.social @naviyuk.bsky.social @milkweededitions.bsky.social @guggfellows.bsky.social

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New Interactive Tool Helps Families Locate Loved Ones in ICE Detention The map, created by Freedom for Immigrants, compiles information and resources for those impacted by ICE.

Freedom for Immigrants is launching an interactive map designed to help families locate detained loved ones, find legal and community resources, and better understand the expanding U.S. immigration detention system.

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In the Translator's Workshop: Featuring Michael Bazzett on the Poetry of K’iche’ Maya poet, Humberto Ak’abal MICHAEL BAZZETT | Translating the poetry of K’iche’ Maya poet Humberto Ak’abal can sometimes feel like trying to grab a beam of sunlight.

I’m grateful to Amit Majmudar for including this brief essay in the marvelous series he curates for Marginalia Review of Books, “The Translator’s Workshop.” I do hope you enjoy it!

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Help us protect Sacred site Pe’Sla from mining.

Pete Lien & Sons & the U.S Forest Service have no right to violate our rights, declare Indigenous culture as an acceptable loss, or endanger the drinking water of thousands of people.

✍🏽 Sign today: ndnco.cc/protectpesla

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Greg Bem, poet and founder of Carbonation Press YouTube video by A Line Around Your Thoughts

Lovely & wide-ranging interview with @gregbem.bsky.social, founding editor/publisher of Carbonation Press (and my book White Door), about place, making anthologies, book publishing, collaboration, making art of/for/from a place/time &&&
youtu.be/M9WEUS3SVfw?...

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3 days ago

And it's not just some half ass snow either. These are huge flakes and sticking! Yep, won't get over it any time soon. 🙃

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Ok: it was a muggy 86 yesterday (still in the 70s at midnight!). A rainy 50s in the am. It's snowing now, at 35 & falling... while all the storming that brought this about happened elsewhere (🙈🙉🙊👀)

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Portolan - Nebraska Press

So looking forward to @monikacassel.bsky.social translating Daniela Danz's poetry.
Pre-order at link
#poetryInTranslation
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www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

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4 days ago

And they're not kidding!

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4 days ago
Sticker covered computer back: Terry Runyan cats on or between ACLU, rainbow flag coffeeshop, We know what we saw, stack of book saying Sorry I'm booked, rebel loon, various press, Scarry--stickers. All very colorful.

Sorry not sorry I'm booked.
Also: say hi to my cats.

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Amorak Huey Mouth Saturday March 14 2:30 pm Gathering Volumes Bookstore, Perrysburg, Ohio

If you’ll be in or near Northwest Ohio on Saturday & wanna come help me celebrate my new poetry collection, I’d love to see you—

facebook.com/events/s/amo...

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5 days ago
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Immigration detention on track for deadliest fiscal year since 2004 Twenty-three people have died since October in ICE custody, as advocates warn about overcrowding and health care access.

Twenty-three people have died since October in ICE custody, as advocates warn about overcrowding and health care access. n.pr/4ujkO80

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Send us some things!

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5 days ago

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Southwest planes parked at a terminal; photograph taken through the window of a plane backing out. Visible in reflection, a hand and the cabin. Photo of several buttons on a white hotel bedspread; the buttons, variously colored, say "Ask Me About 'into a darker wilderness podcast'" Photo of the least inviting museum entrance I've yet seen, a slightly open large metallic gray door with a small 'OPEN' sign fastened to it. (This, it turns out, was not one's intended first entry to the museum, which is scattered across separate buildings.) Photograph of Davi Gray at Baltimore's Inner Harbor; she's wearing mid-length disorderly blond hair and a floral mask. In the background floats a large schooner or something (idk I'm not a naval history buff).

🧵 - AWP photos 1/

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5 days ago

It was so nice to run into you and meet you in person! Also, thank you so much for your support 🙏💙!!

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JMWW Submission Manager JMWW is a literary journal publishing fiction, flash, poetry,  hybrid work, essays, interviews, and other miscellany weekly. We are happy you found us!We want to see your work, but don't be all stalke...

Subs open now til 3/15 @jmwwjournal.bsky.social

Hybrid, blended, & genre-defying works. If you’re working outside the conventions of traditional genres, we want to celebrate your work. Something magical that doesn’t fit other lit categories? We’d be honored to read it.

jmww.submittable.com/submit

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1 week ago

😍 you'll have to tell me ALL about it 🙂

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1 week ago

Yay! 🎊✨️🎉

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