Michael R. Burch

Michael R. Burch is a poet who lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his lovely wife Beth, their handsome son Jeremy, and seven outrageously spoiled puppies. His poems, essays, articles, short stories and letters have appeared more than 1,700 times in publications such as TIME, USA Today, The Hindu, Light Quarterly, The Lyric, Writer's Digest—The Year's Best Writing, Unlikely Stories and hundreds of literary journals and websites. He is also the editor of The HyperTexts, a columnist for the Nashville City Paper and (according to Google) a leading online editor and publisher of Holocaust, Hiroshima, Trail of Tears, Darfur, Haiti and Nakba poetry. His second book, O, Terrible Angel, is now available for purchase.

O, Terrible Angel

O, Terrible Angel is a collection of love poems written by Michael R. Burch for his wife Beth over a period of twenty years. He uses “terrible” in the sense of “inducing awe,” as a man might be awed by the vision of an angel. The poems explore love from a variety of angles, through moments of separation and doubt, to those of deepest and profoundest intimacy. What emerges is a complex weave of human emotions, gathered into tapestries, magic carpets, and warm, comfortable quilts.

$16.00
Available on Amazon

Michael R. Burch's collection,
O, Terrible Angel is dedicated to his wife Beth.
The slideshow below features photos of her.

Beth Burch delivers a moving Christmas message about suicide
and bullying, and sings a beautiful rendition of The Ballad of the Donkey.