Current projects include: working on a journal he kept as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand. Back in the day, Burgess made a name for himself in a few Tucson middle school libraries as a somewhat scary Edgar Allan Poe impersonator. He was co-editor of a poetry quarterly, Prickly Pear/Tucson and co-facilitator with the Summer Institute of the Southern Arizona Writing Project. Dimunuendo Press will publish a collection of his poetry in 2010. He promises to respond to any e-mail sent his way: bbneedle@cox.net.