About
Myles Burr is an artist based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Front-man of Myles Burr & The Last Straws and Specializing in freeform poetry, he takes readers/audience members through an abstract overview of his personal life. Burr hosts various readings and beat poetry events in the Seacoast Area. He is an administrator/board member of The Portland Poets Society (based in Portland, Maine.) He is the author of “Therapy Is Expensive So I Wrote This Book Instead.” and has been published in three anthologies, “You, Me, & The End Of The World.” , “The Best F-ing Poets You’ve Never Heard Of.” , and “UWA Poetry Review Issue 1.” All four titles were released by the publishing house Underground Writers Association, based out of Portland, ME. Burr has also self-published six underground chapbooks: “Convolutions Of An Unkempt Mind.,” “It’s Fine. I’m Fine.,” “Ataraxia Volume 1,” “Sea Breezes,” “A Buffoon In Pantomime,” and most recently, “Hellfire & Brimstone.” Growing up in the Greater Seacoast Area has allowed him to find inspiration in the drastic change of seasons both visually and viscerally. There is beauty in every corner of the world, but what fascinates Myles Burr most of all is people and the human experience.