Burning River

Middle America is known for a tenacious and strong work ethic, and Ohio.

Burning River is a website, an idea, and a principle that words are universal, that creativity above destruction drives the human race and that somewhere (maybe buried deep in time and space) there is a river that can, will and did catch fire.

Born in Cleveland after the birth of the burning river, the day the Cuyahoga River caught fire, I knew then that books carry a scent, a color, a moment; that they could define a life, if a life was devoted to them. And words. Especially nouns. Especially verbs.

Noun Versus Verb is a collision of ideals. It is one’s grammar against another’s. It’s a twisted tongue wrapping around words inaudible but for the steely future ahead of itself: in language, in evolving the common thread that weaves through and of us, in the persistence and disquiet of a locomotive.

It is also our annual literary journal.

So come smell our scents: the fumes wafted from factories, the cut of Lake Erie wind, or the after effect of a downtrodden, performing sports team.

Smell Cleveland. Read books. Smell and read Cleveland books.

If this is something you desire, then you’ve stopped at the right place.  Links to the upper left will tell you more about  the continuing projects of Burning River–it’s philosophies, participants and goals.

And most importantly, it’s creativity…