Michael R. Burch (born February 19, 1958) is an American computer company executive,[1] poet,[2] columnist,[3] essayist [4] and editor[5] who lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
On October 21, 2010, Burch presented the Burch-Elberry Peace Initiative to Aziz Mekouar, the Moroccan Ambassador to the United States, at a reception[7] held in the Grand Ballroom of Nashville's Vanderbilt Plaza hotel.
Burch also encouraged contemporary formalists he had published, such as Richard Moore, Rhina Espaillat, Jack Butler, Annie Finch, A. E. Stallings and Harvey Stanbrough to contribute to Romantics Quarterly.
After Romantics Quarterly ceased publication, Burch published a number of the journal's best poems through his literary website The HyperTexts [1], which has been online for two decades and according to Google Analytics has received more than 9.8 million page views since 2010.
Poets translated by Burch include Basho, Bertolt Brecht, Robert Burns,[15][16] William Dunbar, Allama Iqbal, Ono no Komachi, Miklós Radnóti,[17] Rainer Maria Rilke, Renée Vivien and Sappho.