Avery Burns across two issues
Avery Burns is a Bay Area poet with a long history in the San Francisco poetry community. His work has extended through small presses, readings, curatorial projects, and the Canessa Park Reading Series. Small Press Traffic records two later collections, including Expectations Asunder.
Issue 4 preserves three short poems from aether in full. Issue 31 records a later entry from Ambulatory Refrains; that poem text is absent from the surviving page.
from aether — I
clip
red
&
green
daylight
remainder
reminder
arch
toward
a
source
of
repose
tender
from aether — II
heuristic
confluence
sand
falling
through
clockwheel
spoons
time
turned
visual
hands
in
silent
performance
from aether — III
shark
&
polliwog
excite
wave
slapping
hull
echos
blue
noise
filling
porthole
sight
drum
from Ambulatory Refrains
Issue 31 preserves the entry title and Burns’s authorship. The poem text is no longer present on the surviving page.
Bay Area poetry and later work
Small Press Traffic documents Burns’s long connection to its bookstore and board, his work with the Canessa Park Reading Series, and later collections. Litseen records him hosting the Canessa Reading Series, part of a sustained role in the Bay Area poetry community.