Peter Burghardt, Author at Witness

Peter Burghardt

Peter Burghardt lives in Oakland, California, where he co-publishes speCt books and works with Omnidawn Publishing. His poems have appeared in The Offending Adam, Tammy, White Stag, The Laurel Review, and elsewhere. His chapbook, Cosmic American Music, was published by Old Gold in 2017.

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By Peter Burghardt

Poetry•Vol. XXXI No. 3 (Winter 2018)

it takes long so mystic becomes streetlights where day used to come a bird on the fence is banded elsewhere notness grows into you washing my neck in the dark I said I’d see no nothing but meant I’m with the mud and can’t walk inside or ruin it imagine it’s like what… [Read More]