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. 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) as well as his debut full-length collection of poetry Infinite Zero (Writ Large Press, 2025).
Books
Infinite Zero, 2025
Infinite Zero, the debut full-length poetry collection from Peter Burzyński, is a book of poetry that celebrates and indulges its own tragedies. It is a neo-baroque grotesque expression of vulnerability brimming with playful language that simultaneously burns and soothes. At the center of these poems there is a nobody longing for any and everything. There is morose joy and cheerful glumness. There is poetry that tries to break its own lines and still win. It is the beauty of failure.
Available for purchase from Writ Large Projects
A Year Alone Inside of Woodland Pattern, 2022
“This book is the fulfillment of a long promise. About twenty years ago, Peter Burzyński began giving readings at Woodland Pattern. We eagerly looked forward to his participation in the annual marathon, a mounting recollection of years. He used the store in a way that only a select few used it, as a reading means of education, to develop his vision and writing. When he finally came to work at Woodland Pattern he was fired with a generous enthusiasm (‘it’s like an organized mess / of retired trees’) and an imagination vividly displayed in this book which comes after a pandemic year of isolation in the store.” -Karl Gartung, co-founder of Woodland Pattern Book Center
Available for download from Adjunct Press.
Poetry
“Scorpios Are Bad for Your Health,” Midway Journal (forthcoming October 2025)
Infinite Zero (Writ Large Press, 2025)
“It Would Be Easier to Say,” “(Home) In Translation,” “Rabid Rapid Rabbit,” “Peripeteia,” “Earth Worn,” and “Workaround Wretch,” Wrestling with Poetry: 2.2 (December 2024)
"Resident Alien/Service Class Citizen," "Too Many Vinegars," and the “Washington Island Ferry #6” series, petrichor journal (October 2024)
“Proairesis,” “Two Guitars,” and “A Gilded Lining,” The Oxeye Reader: Volume II: Milwaukee (October 2024)
"Poem in the Manner of JK” and "Head-on," Bramble (September 2023)
“Why Do I Keep Writing You Poems” and “Not Everyone Needs to be Gay,” Moody: The Zine: Issue 22 (July, 2023)
"Clouds of Rare,” WYRD (Summer, 2023)
“But No Matter,” Spray Painted Poems Milwaukee (2023)
"Muzzy Havage" and "Little Cæsura’s® Pizza." Pink Moth, (Winter 2023)
“See You in Forty,” “Hung over the Rungs,” “Raising Cain,” “She’s a Good Cat,” and “Bullets for Roxanne,” Pitymilk Press: DuetDuet Volume 7 (2023)
“Edukacja czyli bundt / Education (In Other Words Rebellion),” Kitchen Table Quarterly (Winter 2023)
“Fields of Flame,” Brooklyn Rail (July 2022)
“Go Back Time,” Polanki Newsletter (November 2021)
“The Times,” Woodlandpattern.org (March 2020)
“Poet Matters,” Broadside Woodland Pattern (2019)
“How to Cultivate Enemies,” Up North Lit (Summer 2019)
“seeing believing” and “Pantoglottism,” jubilat (Winter 2018)
“Salted Pepper Pizza Slice,” Eat Local, Read Local Project of Wisconsin 2018 (April 2018)
“Ruptured Duck,” Storm Cellar (Summer 2017)
“To the Throne,” Eat Local, Read Local Project of Wisconsin 2017 (April 2017)
“Oy, Lizards,” “Oxter,v.” and “Lung Butter,” Woodland Pattern Blog (April 2017)
"The Fearful United," Crabfat Magazine (April 2017)
“Narkokleptocracy,” Rabbit Catastrophe (December 2016): 29-30
“’Merica,” Masque & Spectacle (December 2016)
“Kindergarten Graduation,” Wisconsin People and Ideas: 55 (December 2016)
"To Squeak and Bend and Sleep" and "Let's Get Those Pants Off," Fog Machine (December 2016)
“Uncle-hood” and “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
“Forty for Fishy” and “No Matter,” No Assholes (Winter 2016): 21-2, 26
“Dawn Flower,” Eat Local, Read Local Project of Wisconsin 2016 (Reprinted) (April 2016)
“Arc and Saw,” APRICITY (May 2016): 11
“Uncanny Valley,” 3Elements Review (January 2016): p. 74
“Oriflamme” and “Leda Needs a Gun,” Local Nomad (January 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
“Dear Cyclist,” The Rain, Party, & Disaster Society (November 2015): 11-2
“Who Art in Heaven,” “Holy Father,” “Ninja School,” “Delicious,” and “Safe Serve,” Fog Machine (November 2015)
“Pennyweighting,” The Harpoon Review (November 2015)
“Where There is Rust,” truthdig (October 2015)
“Fragile,” “Consensual Cannibalism,” and “Dawn Flower,” Chariton Review (Fall 2015): 46-8
“Fin de siècle,” Off the Coast (Fall 2015): 13
“Maundy Ceremony,” “A Talon, a Sword, a Grave,” “Portrait d’un Faune,” and “Traveled Around,” floor plan journal (September 2015)
“Just Ten Minutes Left” and “This is Meaning,” Mayday Magazine (September 2015)
“Cannon Ball Take Me Home,” Whiskey Island (September 2015): 86
“Artifacts” and “On the Eating of Hearts and Tongues,” Anamesa Journal (May 2015): 1, 36-7
“Deviant Equation” and “What is the Correct Amount of Sex?,” Blue Lines (Spring 2015): 14-17
“Eating Eden,” Eat Local, Read Local Project of Wisconsin 2015 (April 2015)
“Poet Matters,” Pilcrow & Dagger! (April 2015): 38-40
“Slavophile,” RHINO (April 2015): 14
“Drop the Anchor,” Thin Air (April 2015): 52
“Who Speaks for the Bones,” Forklift, Ohio (Spring 2015): 136-7
“Pie-Eyed,” Bar None Group (February 2015):
“House of Corrections,” Fields Magazine (Winter 2015): 155
“Dangling in Winter.” Bar None Group (January 2015)
“Agnoiology,” ZO Magazine (January 2015)
“Road to Wrestlemania,” Working Stiff. Josh Olson, ed. Gimmick Press, (2015): 26-7
“Failing to be One’s Own Father,” The Inquisitive Eater (December 2014)
“Marplot,” Bar None Group (December 2014)
“Mediatization,” Bar None Group (November 2014)
“Bloviation,” “Raised to Sip,” and “Where the Sea Meets the Spry,” The Portland Review (November 2014): 46, 72
“Sunbox” and “It Is Imperative That You Fail,” The Mackinac (October 2014)
“Madame Shouldn’t Sleep,” “Not Swan,” and “Breaking the Mule,” Souvenir Lit Journal (October 2014)
“Said Arthur,” “The Pyrobolist’s Heart-Balm,” “Nickel Hi-Lo Yo,” “The Ancients Had Achilles,” White Stag Journal (October 2014): 32, 53, 63
“Order Operatic,” Prick of the Spindle (September 2014)
“Inventory of the Universe,” Thrush Poetry Journal (September 2014)
“Hot Mama,” “Rice Petals,” “You Have Teeth, Too,” Yes Poetry (August 2014)
“North Dakota,” the Unrorean (July 2014)
“Horse Blasphemy,” Great Lakes Review (Summer 2014): 250-1
“Mud-Honey” and “Vile Concerto # 9, Opus 2,” BORT Quarterly (June 2014)
“Objective Correlative” and “Black Jacks,” Hobo Pancakes (June 2014)
“Emeralds and Olives,” Your Impossible Voice (Summer 2014): 46-7
“After Common Era,” “Dearest V-,” “Six Kilo Freedom Fry,” “Unintentional Impressionism,” ”Vast Veranda,” “You’re Well/Enjambed,” Zombie Logic Review (April 2014)
“More or Less, An Apology” and “Song of Myself (2011 Version),” FUCK Poems: An Exceptional Anthology, Vincent Cellucci, ed. (Lavender Ink, 2013): New Orleans: 44-7
“Journal of Autonomy,” The Best American Poetry Blog (March 2012)
“Cemetery Sideshow,” Bar None Group (November 2011)
“Wracam,” Kritya (May 2009)
Translations
“Divinations from Wax,” Grzegorz Wróblewski. Taos Journal of Poetry (September 2025)
“Cultivation,” “%,” “The Last Generation,” and “Shadow Breeding,” Grzegorz Wróblewski. Half Day Moon Journal (August 2025)
“Groceries,” “Positive Thinking,” and “The Romantic Movement,” Grzegorz Wróblewski. Eclectica Magazine (July 2025)
“Forgotten Obsidian,” “Warm-Blooded,” “Mahāyāna Buddhism,” and “Common Sense,” Grzegorz Wróblewski. Synchronized Chaos (May 2025)
“Valhalla,” “Secret,” “The Argonne Forest,” and “Malfunctioning Stars,” Grzegorz Wróblewski. Exchanges Journal (May 2025)
“In the Motel Under the Star,” “Morphine Sulfate (2),” and “Rimbaud,” Grzegorz Wróblewski. Sola Poēta (April 2025)
“Ecology” and “Our Beloved Subtlety,” Grzegorz Wróblewski. SLANT (Spring 2025)
“Sight,” “By the Pond,” “On the Second Floor,” and “Fresh Meat,” Grzegorz Wróblewski. Synchronized Chaos (March 2025)
“The Ocean,” Grzegorz Wróblewski. Dissident Voice (March 2025)
“Marathon,” “Changes in the Weather, “Chihuahua,” “Changing the Board,” and “Status,” Grzegorz Wróblewski. LIT (March 2025)
“Neuropathy,” Grzegorz Wróblewski. Sahtiya Post (February 2025)
“it happened” and “the up tide,” Anna Matysiak. RHINO (2023)
“Grzegorz Wróblewski – A Portfolio of Poetry,” Tupelo Quartley (August 2022)
“Tunnel,” “Foot Powder,” “The King of Flight,” and “The Gelasian Pleistocene,” Grzegorz Wróblewski. jacket2 (August 2022)
“Meat,” “A Present for Mom,” and “Thin Fingernails,” Grzegorz Wróblewski. Tupelo Quarterly (August 2022)
“it happened,” “Queen Wasp,” “messages,” “fugue,” “the uptide,” and “the loneliness of inbred machines,” Anna Matysiak. MAYDAY Magazine (2022)
“Mega-Lit,” “The One Truth,” “A Present for Mom,” “Meat,” and “Tunnel,” Grzegorz Wróblewski. MAYDAY Magazine (2022)
“A Happening” and “The One Truth,” Grezgorz Wróblewski. The Bangalore Review (November 2020)
“This is My Earth,” Martyna Buliżańska. New American Press (March 2019)
“Android and an Anecdote,” and “Until the End of Time,” Grzegorz Wróblewski. MAYDAY Magazine (2018)
“rubella, misha,” and “fasting: recourse,” Martyna Buliżańska. MAYDAY Magazine (2018)
Book Reviews and Essays
“Observations and Anti-aphorisms,” Review of Chelsea Tadeyeske’s island weather. Your Impossible Voice (October 2023)
“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)