Michael R. Burch has over 8,000 publications, including poems that have gone viral. His poems and translations have been published by hundreds of literary journals, taught in high schools and colleges, translated into 17 languages, incorporated into three plays and four operas, and set to music, from swamp blues to opera, 49 times by 30 composers. He also edits The HyperTexts (www.thehypertexts.com)