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Wayne F. Burke

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Wayne F. Burke was born in northern Berkshire County in Massachusetts, "during  the year of hurricane Edna." His mother and father died before he was three, and he was raised by his grandparents. His grandfather, "Gramp" was a millionaire who lost all his money to hospitals and died during Wayne's tenth year. He wanted to become major league ball player, but instead went to Goddard College. After he graduated, he "went to work, worked." He wrote largely prose until a year ago and now writes mostly poetry. He has published poetry in in FORGE, Industry Night, Sassafras, Boston Poetry Magazine, The Commonline Journal, and elsewhere. He has a book of poems due out this December entitled, Words That Burn (Bareback Press),  Wayne has lived in the central Vermont area for the past 25 years. Read.


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