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Chris Bursk

Chris Bursk’s poetry was first published in The Sun in 1977. He was a teacher at Bucks Community College and the author of sixteen books of poetry, including With Aeneas in a Time of Plague, which was published in July. He lived in Langhorne Manor, Pennsylvania, and died on June 21, 2021, at the age of seventy-eight.

— From September 2021
Tribute

A Tribute To Chris Bursk

The selection that follows — just a small sample of the fifty-plus poems of his that have appeared in The Sun — display the heart and honesty that first drew us to Chris’s work in 1977. A self-described “compulsive writer,” Chris once said, “I do not wait for inspiration. . . . Some days I watch the page until a few words come — and then I find myself inside the world they invite me into.” That world will be missed.

September 2021
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Last Writes

My friend possessed the inclination and the ability to turn her experience of the world into a language that insisted on delighting in itself.

June 2020
Poetry

More Reasons You’re Thinking Of Killing Yourself

Because it’s embarrassing how many poems you’ve written / about killing yourself.

October 2015
Poetry

Unselected Poems

You’ve published enough books, old man. / Let someone else have a turn. / The letter doesn’t say that, / but it might as well.

January 2014
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