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Billy Burgos

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Born

in Belize City, Belize

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Poetry, Memoir, Fiction

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Nick Flynn, Charles Simic, Jack Gilbert, Afaa Michael Weaver, Nikki Gi ...more

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Billy Burgos is an Illustrator/Designer/Poet from Los Angeles. He is a Curator on staff at Gotpoetry.com. His poetry has been featured in both Anthologies and Literary Journals and Zines. In 2007 Billy was chosen as an up and coming poet by the L.A. Poetry Festival. He has served as workshop facilitator of the Beyond Baroque Wednesday night workshop and hosts the First Sunday Open Reading at Beyond Baroque. Billy is the host of Word Ballast, a blogtalk poetry show where he has interviewed such poets as Nikki Giovanni, Nikky Finney, Thomas Sayers Ellis and Nick Flynn. His vivid paintings of some of L.A's most interesting poets called The Faces of Poetry is a traveling gallery/poetry exhibit which has been featured in both art journals as wel ...more

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New Poems

I've been working on a new manuscript. Taking a few of the new poems out for a spin around the web.
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Published on May 23, 2014 14:47

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	Eulogy to an Unknown Tree 4.76 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leaving Long Beach: Poems. by Eric Lawson, Apryl Skies (Goodreads Author) (photographer), Amelie Frank (foreword) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Exploring New Frontiers 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mas Tequila Review #6: "Poetry for the rest of us." by Ed. Richard Vargas, Linda Hogan (Contributor), Gerald Locklin (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars