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Peter Burzyński
BUSINESS POET
Peter Buzyński earned a PhD in creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an MFA in poetry from The New School, and an MA in Polish literature from Columbia University. He works as the book center manager at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee. Burzyński is the translator of Martyna Buliżańska’s This Is My Earth (New American Press, 2019) and the author of the chapbook A Year Alone inside of Woodland Pattern (Adjunct Press, 2022).
In between his studies he has worked as a chef in New York City and Milwaukee. His poetry has appeared in jubilat, The Best American Poetry Blog, Thin Air, Prick of the Spindle, Thrush Poetry Review, MAYDAY, Your Impossible Voice, RHINO, and Forklift Ohio, among others. He is the son of immigrants who call him on the phone every day.
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Print Publications
A Year Alone Inside of Woodland Pattern
by Peter Burzyński, 2022
Available for purchase from Woodland Pattern Book Center
Available for purchase from Adjunct Press
“Poet Matters” Broadside Woodland Pattern (2019)
“Go Back Time” Polanki Newsletter (November 2021)
“Salted Pepper Pizza Slice” Eat Local, Read Local Project of Wisconsin 2018 (April 2018)
“seeing believing” and “Pantoglottism” jubilat (Winter 2018)
“Ruptured Duck” Storm Cellar (Summer 2017)
“To the Throne” Eat Local, Read Local Project of Wisconsin 2017 (April 2017)
“Kindergarten Graduation” Wisconsin People and Ideas: 55
“Narkokleptocracy” Rabbit Catastrophe (December 2016): 29-30
“Forty for Fishy” No Assholes (Winter 2016)
“No Matter” No Assholes (Winter 2016)
“Dawn Flower” Eat Local, Read Local Project of Wisconsin 2016 (Reprinted) (April 2016)
“Adiaphory After Many” Coalition for Justice Chapbook in Memory of Dantre Hamilton (January 2016): 4
“Sons of Adam” Working Stiff Josh Olson, ed. Gimmick Press, (December 2015): 28-9
“Road to Wrestlemania” Working Stiff. Josh Olson, ed. Gimmick Press, (2015): 26-7
“Fragile” Chariton Review (Fall 2015): 46
“Consensual Cannibalism” Chariton Review (Fall 2015): 47
“Dawn Flower” Chariton Review (Fall 2015): 48
“Fin de siècle” Off the Coast (Fall 2015): 13
“Cannon Ball Take Me Home, Whiskey Island (September 2015): 86
“Deviant Equation” Blue Lines (Spring 2015): 14-15
“What is the Correct Amount of Sex?” Blue Lines (Spring 2015): 16-17
“Eating Eden” Eat Local, Read Local Project of Wisconsin 2015 (April 2015)
“Drop the Anchor” Thin Air (April 2015): 52
“Who Speaks for the Bones” Forklift, Ohio (Spring 2015): 136-7
“House of Corrections,” Fields Magazine (Winter 2015): 155
“Where the Sea Meets the Spry,” The Portland Review (November 2014): 72
“Bloviation,” The Portland Review (November 2014): 46
“Raised to Sip,” The Portland Review (November 2014): 46
“Said Arthur,” White Stag Journal (October 2014): 28-9
“Nickel Hi-Lo Yo,” White Stag Journal (October 2014): 53
“The Pyrobolist’s Heart-Balm,” White Stag Journal (October 2014): 32
“The Ancients Had Achilles,” White Stag Journal (October 2014): 63
“Horse Blasphemy,” Great Lakes Review (Summer 2014): 250-1
“Vile Concerto # 9, Opus 2” BORT Quarterly (June 2014)
“Mud-Honey” BORT Quarterly (June 2014)
“More or Less, An Apology” FUCK Poems Anthology, Vincent Cellucci, ed. Lavender Ink, (2013): New Orleans: 44
“Song of Myself (2011 Version)”FUCK Poems Anthology, Vincent Cellucci, ed. Lavender Ink, (2013): New Orleanns: 45-7
“Pantoglottism” and “seeing believing” Jubilat #32 (Winter 2018)
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Online Publications
poetry
“Fields of Flame” Brooklyn Rail (July 2022)
“The Times” Woodlandpattern.org (March 2020)
(The first and founding poem and prompt in Woodland Pattern’s “Prompts Against Anxiety Series”
“How to Cultivate Enemies” Up North Lit (Summer 2019)
"Lung Butter" Woodland Pattern Blog (April 2017)
"Oxter" Woodland Pattern Blog (April 2017)
"Oy, Lizards" Woodland Pattern Blog (April 2017)
"The Fearful United" Crabfat Magazine (April 2017)
“’Merica” Masque & Spectacle (December 2016)
"To Squeak and Bend and Sleep" Fog Machine (December 2016)
"Let's Get Those Pants Off" Fog Machine (December 2016)
“Uncle-hood” Mannequin Haus (November 2016)
“Several Swallows Later” Mannequin Haus (November 2016)
“What is Lovely, You, My Dear Grotesque?” The Gordian Review (November 2016): 44
“The Good Voodoo” Prelude (Winter 2016): 6-9
“Arc and Saw” APRICITY (May 2016): 11
“Uncanny Valley” 3Elements Review (January 2016): p. 74
“Oriflamme” Local Nomad (January 2016)
“Leda Needs a Gun” Local Nomad (January 2016)
“Dear Cyclist” The Rain, Party, & Disaster Society (November 2015): 11-2
“Who Art in Heaven” Fog Machine (November 2015)
“Holy Father” Fog Machine (November 2015)
“Ninja School” Fog Machine (November 2015)
“Delicious” Fog Machine (November 2015)
“Safe Serve” Fog Machine (November 2015)
“Pennyweighting” The Harpoon Review (November 2015)
“Where There is Rust” truthdig (October 2015)
“Maundy Ceremony” floor plan journal (September 2015)
“A Talon, a Sword, a Grave” floor plan journal (September 2015)
“Portrait d’un Faune” floor plan journal (September 2015)
“Traveled Around” floor plan journal (September 2015)
“Just Ten Minutes Left” Mayday Magazine (September 2015)
“This is Meaning” Mayday Magazine (September 2015)
“Artifacts” Anamesa Journal (May 2015): 1
“On the Eating of Hearts and Tongues” Anamesa Journal (May 2015): 36-7
“Poet Matters” Pilcrow & Dagger! (April 2015): 38-40
“Slavophile” RHINO (April 2015): 14
“Pie-Eyed” Bar None Group (February 2015):
“Dangling in Winter.” Bar None Group
“Agnoiology,” ZO Magazine (January 2015)
“Failing to be One’s Own Father,” The Inquisitive Eater (December 2014)
“Marplot,” Bar None Group (December 2014)
“Mediatization,” Bar None Group (November 2014)
“Sunbox” The Mackinac (October 2014)
“It Is Imperative That You Fail” The Mackinac (October 2014)
“Madame Shouldn’t Sleep,” Souvenir Lit Journal (October 2014)
“Breaking the Mule,” Souvenir Lit Journal (October 2014)
“Not Swan,” Souvenir Lit Journal (October 2014)
“Order Operatic,” Prick of the Spindle (September 2014)
“Inventory of the Universe,” Thrush Poetry Journal (September 2014)
“Hot Mama,” Yes Poetry (August 2014)
“Rice Petals,” Yes Poetry (August 2014)
“You Have Teeth, Too,” Yes Poetry (August 2014)
“North Dakota,” the Unrorean (July 2014)
“Objective Correlative” Hobo Pancakes (June 2014)
“Black Jacks,” Hobo Pancakes (June 2014)
“Emeralds and Olives,” Your Impossible Voice (Summer 2014): 46-7
“After Common Era,” Zombie Logic Review (April 2014)
“Dearest V-,” Zombie Logic Review (April 2014)
“Six Kilo Freedom Fry,” Zombie Logic Review (April 2014)
“Unintentional Impressionism,” Zombie Logic Review (April 2014)
“Vast Veranda,” Zombie Logic Review (April 2014)
“You’re Well/Enjambed,” Zombie Logic Review (April 2014)
“Journal of Autonomy” The Best American Poetry Blog (March 2012)
“Cemetery Sideshow” Bar None Group (November 2011)
“Wracam,” Kritya (May 2009)
Book Reviews & essays
“Translitigation” Jacket2 (Summer 2022)
“on The Tiniest Muzzle Sings Songs of Freedom by Magdalena Zurawski.” The Georgia Review (Winter 2019)
"Review of Matthew Cooperman's Spool." MAYDAY magazine (Spring 2017)
“Review of Magdalena Zurawski’s Companion Animal,” WoodlandPattern.org (November 2015)
Translations
“Grzegorz Wróblewski – A Portfolio of Poetry” Tupelo Quartley (August 2022)
“it happened” and “the up tide” Translated from the Polish. Anna Matysiak. RHINO (forthcoming 2023)
“messages” Translated from the Polish. Anna Matysiak. MAYDAY Magazine (forthcoming 2022)
“Mega-Lit” Translated from the Polish. Grzegorz Wróblewski. MAYDAY Magazine (forthcoming 2022)
“A Happening” and “The One Truth.” Translated from the Polish. Grezgorz Wróblewski. The Bangalore Review (November 2020)
This is My Earth. Translated from the Polish. Martyna Buliżańska. New American Press (March 2019)
Also available from Woodland Pattern
“rubella, misha.” and “fasting: recourse.” Translated from the Polish. Martyna Buliżańska. MAYDAY Magazine (2018)
“Android and an Anecdote.” and “Until the End of Time.” Translated from the Polish. Grzegorz Wróblewski. MAYDAY Magazine (2018)