Avery Burns is a poet, empty nesting in Lafayette with his wife, Rhodesian Ridgeback and eight chickens.  After moving to the Bay Area in the early 80’s, he threw himself into the poetry scene with gusto, including editing a magazine in the 90’s called lyric&,co-editing a magazine in the ‘00’s called 26, and running the Canessa Park Reading Series in San Francisc for 15 years. Highlights include getting a blurb from Robert Creeley for a book that was never published and sitting zazen at the Hartford Street Zen Center in order to meet poet/monk Philip Whalen.  Avery’s most recent book is In the Margins (Magra, 2022). For the past several years he has been posting minimalist sonnets on Instagram #averyburnspoet almost daily.