Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Callaloo, jubilat, Ploughshares, VOLT, Bat City Review and Sou’wester. CM serves as the Elma Stuckey Emerging Poet in Residence at Columbia College Chicago and will join their core poetry faculty in fall 2013.

She has received commissions from the Studio Museum of Harlem and the Warhol Museum to create poetry in response to art installations. Her books are The Vital System and Master Suffering.

Of it, Douglas Kearney said, “With gorgeous horror, Burrough’s debut thrusts the body forward as an intelligence, a syntax, a theater.”ĭo you need to hear more? Probably not, but here it is: CM has been awarded fellowships and grants from Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Cave Canem Foundation, Callaloo Writers Workshop and the University of Pittsburgh. CM Burroughs is Associate Professor of Poetry at Columbia College. School Teachers Review Body: Eighteenth Report Part One 2009 (Cm.)School. at Columbia College Chicago and author of The Vital System (Tupelo. Credit Scores and Credit Reports 3rd ed: How The System Really Works. CM BURROUGHS is the author of The Vital System, out from Tupelo Press. THE VITAL SYSTEM is the first published book by a poet already setting off sparks among readers across the globe. Chicago Poetry Centers Blue Hour w/CM Burroughs & Eugenia Leigh Hosted By Chicago.

The Vital System by C.M. Burroughs