Rick Bursky's books included Let's Become a Ghost Story, and I'm No Longer Troubled By the Extravagance both from BOA Editions; and Death Obscura from Sarabande Books. He teaches poetry for the Writer's Program at UCLA Extension.

Other poems by Rick Bursky in Verse Daily:
September 16, 2022:   "Assume Everything I Say Is True" "We smoked Arturo Fuentes, sipped vodka gimlets...."
October 22, 2020:   "The Scaffolding" "When I left home, all I took was a window..."
October 6, 2015:   "Instead" "We taught our horses to be wild, our dogs to shoot guns...."
March 21, 2012:   "The Man in the Moon Retires to a Small House in a Valley" "A fleshless man doesn't need much...."
December 4, 2010:   "The Mandolin" "This was the night police chased the musicians from the roof...."

Other poems on the web by Rick Bursky:
"This, Too, Is Harmony"
Six poems
Three poems
"The Aerodynamics"
"Pomegranates"
Three poems
"This Is Yours"

Rick Bursky's Website.

Rick Bursky on Twitter.

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Other poems from The Southeast Review in Verse Daily:
July 8, 2014:   "An Emergency Every Day of the Week" by Christopher Citro
April 22, 2014:   "The River of Ugly Fishes" by Clayton Adam Clark
July 14, 2013:   "An Emergency Every Day of the Week" by Christopher Citro
May 4, 2013:   "Like Father" by Rich Smith
May 2, 2013:   "Love Poem for What It Is" by Rebecca Hazelton
January 16, 2012:   "Dear So-and-So" by Monica Berlin
January 28, 2011:   "Romanticism" by Ashley Elizabeth Hudson
September 23, 2008:   "The Huntsman's Resum " by Angela Vogel
March 31, 2008:   "Ostriches" by C.J. Sage
April 14, 2006:   "This Is for the Thunder" by Richard Brostoff
December 8, 2002:  Between Them by Ron Mohring
December 2, 2002:  Marriage as Creative Process by Julianna Baggott

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