Burch 's poems , essays , articles , and letters have appeared in publications such as TIME , USA Today , Writer 's Digest , Writer 's Journal , Writer 's Gazette , The Lyric , Light Quarterly , Measure , Poet Lore , The Raintown Review , Trinacria , Ancient Cypress Press , The New Formalist , and hundreds of other literary journals . He had a weekly column in Nashville 's City Paper , for three years until it folded in 2013 . He is an editor and publisher of Holocaust , Hiroshima , Trail of Tears , Darfur and Nakba poetry . He has also translated poetry from Old English and other languages into modern English . Poets translated by Burch include Basho , Bertolt Brecht , Robert Burns , William Dunbar , Allama Iqbal , Ono no Komachi , Miklós Radnóti , Rainer Maria Rilke , Renée Vivien and Sappho
Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears
Michael R. Burch