Kimberly Burnham, Author of Mistaken for a Man, a Story for Anyone Struggling to Feel Comfortable in Their Own Skin, Clothes, and Community
Mistaken for a Man, came out of a series of experiences, one in particular. The campground experience at the beginning of the book changed how I looked at encounters with people who assume that I am male. I identify as “She/Her” and as a butch lesbian. I wonder sometimes if I were trans whether I would be male and appear male and walk through the world more comfortably. I don’t think I would feel happier because there would be a conflict between how I feel inside and how I look on the outside. Instead there is a dissonance between how I feel inside and how I am perceived by other people but that place of discomfort or struggling to find peace is where my art comes from. And I can live with other people’s discomfort. At first, as the experiences piled up, they became funny stories to tell at parties and a friend suggested that I write them down in November as part of a NaNoWriMo challenge. As I wrote, I remembered more and more incidents of misgendering or mistaken identity, some traumatic, some funny, and some thought provoking. I also got in touch with my connection with my teenage trans stepson and how it feels for him to move through the world. The project began to encompass not only funny stories but also ways to look at the impact of our assumptions about identity on many levels. Most of us would not blurt out an assumption about a woman we suspect is pregnant, but we think nothing of saying “Thank you sir” or “How can I help you, sir” or block the door to a public restroom, when we don’t know for certain the gender of the person we are talking to. Ultimately, my goal with this memoir is to cause some people to laugh because in many ways these experiences are funny. Other people, I hope will feel not so alone in the world and know that we are human, we make mistakes, our brains love to take short cuts and make assumptions. A third group of people, I hope will read this memoir and change how they behave, allowing all of us to say who we are, be who we are, and be comfortable in our community. Mistaken For A Man builds on my earlier poetry memoir, Live Like Someone Left The Gate Open, which chronicles my journey from being born a fifth generation Mormon, a Brigham Young University graduate, and serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to coming out as a lesbian and converting to Judaism. In 1987, I wrote a personal essay for an anthology, Guide to Gracious Lesbian Living. Looking back on the last 36 years, I see how far the world and I have come. My essay appeared with simply my first name on the chapter and the table of contents. I was too scared to have it appear with my full name. I am still scared of how those I love and care about will respond to my work and how I am seen in the world, but I am better able to embody my experience, write about it, and send it out into the world to inspire myself and others.
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Challenges of Getting Married in the LGBTQ plus Community Working on the wedding related scenes in my memoir, Mistaken For A Man, A Story for Anyone Struggling to Feel Comfortable in Their Own Skin, Clothes and Community (coming in April 2024). I applied for a wedding license in 2004, when I knew it would be denied. (because I wasn't a man.) in Boulder, Colorado. I got very publicly engaged in 2013 when Doma (Defense of Marriage Act) fell (at that point it didn't matter if I was a man or a woman) but then broke it off.when it didn't feel right I married in 2018, where I could easily have been mistaken for the groom in the clothes I wore in Victoria, British Columbia.
In 2022, I went to a wedding where someone referred to me using They / Them pronouns (in a nice way). Amazing how far we have come that I could go to a wedding and someone would use gender neutral pronouns because they weren't sure what pronouns I would prefer (which is in fact, she / her). in New Jersey. Are You Part of My Tribe? The Intelligence of Pattern Recognition, An excerpt from No Mistakes!: How You Can Change Adversity into Abundance by Madisyn Taylor, Sunny Dawn Johnston, HeatherAsh Amara, Kimberly Burnham, et al. In 2013, I wrote a personal essay for an anthology, No Mistakes!: How You Can Change Adversity into Abundance What do science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, actress Geena Davis, three-year-old Emmelyn Roettger, and even the animated character Lisa Simpson have in common? Membership in Mensa, which “fosters human intelligence for the benefit of humanity.” Many Mensa questions are based on pattern recognition and determining what does or doesn’t fit. For example: Which body part is the odd one out-cornea, macula, lens, eyes, or iris? Really smart people seem to be saying, “The more you can see the pattern and your place in the pattern-where you fit and how things fit together-the more intelligent you are.” Misdiagnosis or Misperception So how important is literal eyesight and figurative vision in your ability to be successful? Little Emmelyn Roettger’s parents were told she might be autistic. It turned out she just needed glasses, and once they solved that problem she soon became the youngest US member of Mensa. And, by the way, the answer to the question above is: the eyes. The rest are all parts of the whole. Just noticing the pattern, the way in which we are similar and are connected, can bring healing, strengthen the function of your brain, and help you to be more adaptable and intelligent. What do you see when you look at the people around you? It is well into the twenty-first century, and there are still people who want me dead because I have the audacity to love a woman. For some people, that love is a serious lapse in judgment-a mistake that I should regret. But I do not repent the broken path that led me gaily forward to her. [Read More] https://healthy-brain.medium.com/are-you-part-of-my-tribe-the-intelligence-of-pattern-recognition-70f53c531a43?sk=38f8c84cf8355f070140d02452c9f538 I am now working on a new memoir, Mistaken for a Man, A Story for Anyone Struggling to Feel Comfortable in Their Own Skin, Clothes, and Community. (Coming April 2024) Summer 2013 when Kimberly Burnham was riding her bicycle across the U.S. and met up with fellow No Mistakes Author Gloria Piantek
Originally published on June 29, 2012. https://imfromdriftwood.com/story/im-from-provo-ut/ Summer vacation at seven years old, the best part of the day is as much ice cream as I want and a can of grandpa’s Fresca, which he always had in the fridge because he was a diabetic. With saccharin instead of sugar, the Fresca is “healthy” for my recuperating body, now missing a set of tonsils, removed the day before. I am resting comfortably on the yellow and brown plaid couch. My parents, younger sister and baby brother are outside having a picnic in Provo’s dry summer heat. They are eating corn on the cob, thickly sliced red beefsteak tomatoes on soft spongy hamburger buns and homemade pickle relish. I am staring at the red brick fireplace in a place that has always felt like home to me. Once when I was ten and could swim really well, I woke in this house. Then in the coolness of the early, early morning, my dad explained photosynthesis so he could stay awake as we drove through Southern Utah, past Blanding, where he was born, meeting my cousins in the red rocks of Lake Powell. I was finally old enough to see the lake because you had to be able to swim to go on trips on my great uncle’s boat. In those moments, my dad never imagined years later writing a letter, a response to his oldest coming out. “I don’t understand or condone, but you are my daughter whose happiness I value. I love you.” I lived, here in my grandparent’s house with my mother, when I was born. That day, my father got a telegram through the U.S. Naval Messaging Services. He was sitting quietly in his compartment lacing his shoes, when a voice shouted down the topside hatch, “Your telegram is here!” The message had arrived a few hours before, but since it was not his ship’s turn for the radio guard, no one woke him as soon as it arrived, as he had instructed every single one of the watch standers to do. Incoming Message: “Provo, Utah 7:10A Girl Weight 7 Lbs doing fine born July 21st 9:30 PM. Congrats, Ace.” He sends back a message carried by Western Union Telegram, his response to his first child, “I am filled with pride and happiness. God keep both of you until I get home. All my love. At Comfleacts Yokosuka, Japan. Twenty-one years later, I am back at my grandparents’ place getting ready to go a few blocks away to the Missionary Training Center, where I spend two months learning Japanese. Just before I put teenage crushes aside and served a year and a half mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) in the Tokyo North Mission, I am studying with the local women missionaries, where I live outside of Cleveland, Ohio. I want to be around them and admire them. I am like a puppy, hanging on their words and the scent of their perfume. I am electrified by an accidental touch, knowing I will soon be one of them, albeit far, far from home. One of those muggy Ohio nights, standing by my car, saying good night to her, a Mormon missionary after a day of pious preparatory study, I am struggling to see the way clear to “nothing wrong with hugging”. “Of course you can hug me,” she says. But there is too much desire. I do not have innocent thoughts. She does not understand, nor do I but it is the only righteous path I see. “I can’t hug you, because I want to.” A few months later in Japan, my red and white tennis shoes sit ready by the unlocked apartment door, side by side facing outward, where four of us live, in the humid Tokyo evening. Calmly, I stand up and move as if looking for a book to intensify my scripture study. I make my escape into the crowded night where I am not allowed without my companion. Alone, I run past the yakimo man hocking hot orange fleshed sweet potatoes, past the family in flip flops on their way to the public ofuro to bathe. Breathing in the steamy spicy air of soba noodles, I savor my brief autonomy. I run until all the stress has left my body. Releasing the anxiety of a bar set too high, I pass the red Shinto shrine and the still dark bell of Buddhist stone guardians. I run back to my life as a Mormon missionary, back into the predictable uproar of broken rules. A few years later, after I have returned to Provo, to BYU, to complete my degree, my cousin prods, “When are you getting married, already? Any prospects?” She confronts in the August heat of a family reunion. Nearly thirty years old, I say, “I am gay.” Speaking the words to my favorite cousin. My cousin, who when a stranger cuts her off in traffic excuses, “he probably just got the call, his wife is in the hospital having his first son.” She and I shared summers sorting cherries on her father’s farm and running free around Europe, where my family lived. There were cool desert nights in sleeping bags watching shooting stars and times together riding farm cows and Belgian street cars. A childhood full of memories, never imagining a future split open like a ripe red farm tomato by the revelation, “I am gay.” That day, the deep waters of Lake Powell cooling our shoulders. These waters safe for cliff jumping, water skiing and swimming. I have been with a woman for five years. My cousin wants to know, “Are you attracted to me? to my sisters?” “Ewww, stop.” “Do you wish you were a man?” I look at her, loving a woman is not the same as wanting to be a man. She wants to know, “Why are you gay?” She is a mother concerned for her children, for the way they will grow up in a world where, “I am gay.” Years pass, before I venture out, again in a letter to my parents. I used hate easy questions like, “Where are you from?”, “Okay, where were you born?” “Where did you go to school?”, “Where do your parents live?” Straightforward questions are unbearably tricky for me. The answers, the intersection point between my straight-laced Mormon past and my activist lesbian present. The funny thing is, while I was born in Provo, Utah and my parents moved into my grandparent’s newly renovated house after my father retired, I grew up overseas, so there are ways in which it doesn’t feel like home, except in my heart. After my mission, I returned to Provo, to Brigham Young University, so simple cocktail party questions once answered, usually lead to, “Are you Mormon?” I am, five generations back and yes, there were polygamists but then I kiss a woman, while still attending BYU, an LDS / Mormon university. Kimberly Burnham, Author of the Upcoming Mistaken for a Man, a Story for Anyone Struggling to Feel Comfortable in Their Own Skin, Clothes, and Community
Mistaken for a Man, came out of a series of experiences, one in particular. The campground experience at the beginning of the book changed how I looked at encounters with people who assume that I am male. At first, as the experiences piled up, they became funny stories to tell at parties and a friend suggested that I write them down in November as part of a NanoWriMo challenge. As I wrote, I remembered more and more incidents, some traumatic, some funny, and some thought provoking. I also got in touch with my connection with my teenage trans stepson and how it feels for him to move through the world. The project began to encompass not only funny stories but also ways to look at the impact of our assumptions about identity on many levels. Most of us would not blurt out an assumption about a woman we suspect is pregnant, but we think nothing of saying “Thank you sir” or “How can I help you, sir” or blocking the door to a public restroom, when we don’t know for certain the gender of the person we are talking to. Ultimately, my goal with this memoir is to cause some people to laugh because in many ways these experiences are funny. Other people, I hope will feel not so alone in the world and know that we are human, we make mistakes, our brains love to take short cuts and make assumptions. A third group of people, I hope will read this memoir and change how they move through the world, allowing all of us to say who we are, be who we are and be comfortable in our community.
Mistaken For a Man: A Story for Anyone Struggling to Feel Comfortable in Their Own Skin, Clothes, and Community is a memoir by Kimberly Burnham (she/her) who identifies as a butch lesbian.
The stories span almost 50 years and countries around the world. Kim poignantly conveys her unique response to people mistaking her for a man in bathrooms, restaurants, stores, parties, synagogues, schools, and other places where gender is sometimes relevant, but often not. She occasionally lifts her shirt to correct a mistaken impression but generally struggles with the choice between ignoring people’s comments, hiding or gently or perhaps forcefully correcting people’s mistaken impressions. It is a book that looks forward to a post gender society where the configuration of the body underneath the clothing and how one self-identifies doesn’t influence what bathroom you can use, where you can eat or pray, and most importantly where you feel safe and who you love. The incidents are recounted in an engaging and thought-provoking way with genuine moments of vulnerability, insight, and wisdom. Please contact the author if you are interested in receiving a review copy.
Unencumbered, A news poem by Kimberly Burnham on Poetry24 The News is the Muse re: Jury Awards $80 Million In Damages In Roundup Weed Killer Cancer Trial http://www.poetry24.co.uk/2019/03/unencumbered.html {Read and comment on all Kimberly Burnham's news poems on Poetry 24] http://www.poetry24.co.uk/search/label/Kimberly%20Burnham More News Poems on Poetry 24 from Kimberly Burnham What if Beautiful Green Poetry Could Affect Brain Health? A news poem by Kimberly Burnham on Poetry24 The News is the Muse [Read and comment on all Kimberly Burnham's news poems on Poetry 24 http://www.poetry24.co.uk/search/label/Kimberly%20Burnham Unencumbered, A news poem by Kimberly Burnham on Poetry24 The News is the Muse re: Jury Awards $80 Million In Damages In Roundup Weed Killer Cancer Trial http://www.poetry24.co.uk/2019/03/unencumbered.html {Read and comment on all Kimberly Burnham's news poems on Poetry 24] http://www.poetry24.co.uk/search/label/Kimberly%20Burnham Peace and a Thorny Tree, A news poem by Kimberly Burnham on Poetry24 The News is the Muse re: Women’s Day Warriors – Africa’s queens, rebels and freedom fighters [Read and comment on all Kimberly Burnham's news poems on Poetry 24 http://www.poetry24.co.uk/search/label/Kimberly%20Burnham Gentle Women, Adult Female Persons, and Housewives in Indonesia, A news poem by Kimberly Burnham on Poetry24 The News is the Muse re: Indonesian housewives arrested over election video: Police [Read and comment on all Kimberly Burnham's news poems on Poetry 24 http://www.poetry24.co.uk/search/label/Kimberly%20Burnham Valuable Cowry Peace ♀, A news poem by Kimberly Burnham on Poetry24 The News is the Muse re:A war chief, with his hair pig-greased, with a group of men, inhabitants from a village in the Baliem Valley, in the central mountain range of Papua New Guinea, on Feb 20, 1962. The chief wears a string of Cowry shells around his neck, Cowry shells are the currency of the people in the valley. A woman may be bought for one string of shells. (AP Photo) [Read and comment on all Kimberly Burnham's news poems on Poetry 24 http://www.poetry24.co.uk/search/label/Kimberly%20Burnham The Korean War Is Not Over - Not Officially, A news poem by Kimberly Burnham on Poetry24 The News is the Muse re: What Peace Means On The Korean Peninsula And How To Achieve It [Read and comment on all Kimberly Burnham's news poems on Poetry 24 http://www.poetry24.co.uk/search/label/Kimberly%20Burnham The Frog in Me, A news poem by Kimberly Burnham on Poetry24 The News is the Muse re: Humans are frogs in hot water of climate change, research says [Read and comment on all Kimberly Burnham's news poems on Poetry 24 http://www.poetry24.co.uk/search/label/Kimberly%20Burnham Alabama's 86 Percent, A news poem by Kimberly Burnham on Poetry24 The News is the Muse re: Justices Allow Execution of Muslim Death Row Inmate Who Sought Imam [Read and comment on all Kimberly Burnham's news poems on Poetry 24 http://www.poetry24.co.uk/search/label/Kimberly%20Burnham Preferring One Religion Over Another, A news poem by Kimberly Burnham on Poetry24 The News is the Muse re: Justices Allow Execution of Muslim Death Row Inmate Who Sought Imam [Read and comment on all Kimberly Burnham's news poems on Poetry 24 http://www.poetry24.co.uk/search/label/Kimberly%20Burnham Kimberly Burnham is a brain health expert and poet. 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Poetry and Yoga
"Poetic autoethnography provides a research methodology to explore yoga as a mind-body intervention that creates sanctuary. Using this qualitative method and retrieving data from my personal journals, daily workout journals, experiences as a lesbian-identified participant in yoga classes, and yoga instructor, I turn the research lens on myself in order to examine my sociological life story. At a critical time in my life when I was struggling with the fragmentation, anxiety, and despair resulting from dealing with homophobia in a heteronormative world, yoga provided sanctuary for me. My yoga practice increased my self-efficacy, providing transferable techniques for finding refuge within myself, irrespective of the adversity I was facing in my life. Places of sanctuary are critical for members of minority groups who often face marginalization and oppression, which compromise their well-being." - Myers, K. (2017). "Yoga as Sanctuary: A Valuable Mind-Body Intervention for the Lesbian Community." Int J Yoga Therap 27(1): 15-24. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29131739
Poets of the 2019 Inner Child Poetry Posse, featured in The Year of The Poet: Gail Weston Shazor, Albert ‘Infinite’ Carrasco, Joe DaVerbal Minddancer, Caroline 'Ceri Naz' Nazareno, Elizabeth Castillo, Tezmin Ition Tsai, Ashok K. Bhargava, Shareef Abdur–Rasheed, Kimberly Burnham, Jackie Allen, Teresa E. Gallion, Hulya N. Yilmaz, Alicja Maria Kuberska, Swapna Behera, Eliza Segiet, William S. Peters, Sr. Featured Poets: Marek Lukaszewicz, Aida G. Roque, Bharati Nayak, Jean-Jacques Fournier.
The Poetry Posse 2019
The Year of the Poet project was the brain-child of Jamie Bond and William S. Peters, Sr. The original vision was to commit themselves to writing and publishing a book a month for the year of 2014. In further discussion the vision expanded to include the other Gifted & Talented Writers you see below. The objective is to bring the Poetry Community together with the various cross demographic representations found in Gender, Religion, Geography, Culture and Ethnicity. We hope you enjoy the myriad of perspectives represented here. Thank You, Inner Child Press International. Gail Weston Shazor. This is a creative promise ~ my pen will speak to and for the world. Enamored with letters and respectful of their power, I have been writing for most of my life. A mother, daughter, sister and grandmother I give what I have been given, greatfilledly. Author of "An Overstanding of an Imperfect Love" & Notes from the Blue Roof Lies My Grandfathers Told Me available at Inner Child Press. Albert ‘Infinite’ Carrasco. I'm a project life philanthropist, I speak about the non ethical treatment of poor ghetto people. Why? My family was their equal, my great grandmother and great grandfather was poor, my grandmother and grandfather, my mother and father, poverty to my family was a sequel, a traditional Inheritance of the subliminal. I paid attention to the decades of regression, i tried to make change, but when I came to the fork in the road and looked at the signs that read wrong < > right, I chose the left, the wrong direction, because of street life interactions a lot around me met death or incarceration. I failed myself and others. I regret my decisions, I can't reincarnate dead men, but I can give written visions in laymens. I'm back at that fork in the road, instead of it saying wrong or right, I changed it, now it says dead men < > life. Infinite poetry @lulu.com Alcarrasco2 on YouTube Infinite the poet on reverbnation Infinite Poetry http://www.lulu.com/us/en/shop/al-infinitecarrasco/infinite-poetry/paperback/product-21040240.html Joseph L Paire’ aka Joe DaVerbal Minddancer is a quiet man, born in a time where civil liberties were a walk on thin ice. He's been a victim of his own shyness often sidelined in his own quest for love. He became the observer, charting life's path. Taking note of the why, people do what they do. His writings oft times strike a cord with the dormant strings of the reader. His pen the rosined bow drawn across the mind. He comes full-frontal or in the subtlest way, always expressing in a way that stimulate the senses. www.facebook.com/joe.minddancer Caroline 'Ceri Naz' Nazareno born in Anda, Pangasinan known as a ‘poet of peace and friendship’, is a multi-awarded poet, journalist, editor, publicist, linguist, educator, and women’s advocate. Graduated cum laude with the degree of Bachelor of Elementary Education, specialized in General Science at Pangasinan State University. Ceri have been a voracious researcher in various arts, science and literature. She volunteered in Richmond Multicultural Concerns Society, TELUS World Science, Vancouver Art Gallery, and Vancouver Aquarium. She was privileged to be chosen as one of the Directors of Writers Capital International Foundation ( WCIF ), Member of the Poetry Posse, one of the Board of Directors of Galaktika ATUNIS Magazine based in Albania; the World Poetry Canada and International Director to Philippines; Global Citizen’s Initiatives Member, Association for Women’s rights in Development ( AWID ) and Anacbanua. She has been a 4th Placer in World Union of Poets Poetry Prize 2016, Writers International NetworkCanada ‘’Amazing Poet 2015’’, The Frang Bardhi Literary Prize 2014 (Albania), the sair-gazeteci or Poet-Journalist Award 2014 (Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey) and World Poetry Empowered Poet 2013 (Vancouver, Canada). Elizabeth Esguerra Castillo is a multi-awarded and an Internationally-Published Contemporary Author/Poet and a Professional Writer / Creative Writer / Feature Writer / Journalist / Travel Writer from the Philippines. She has 2 published books, "Seasons of Emotions" (UK) and "Inner Reflections of the Muse", (USA). Elizabeth is also a coauthor to more than 60 international anthologies in the USA, Canada, UK, Romania, India. She is a Contributing Editor of Inner Child Magazine, USA and an Advisory Board Member of Reflection Magazine, an international literary magazine. She is a member of the American Authors Association (AAA) and PEN International. Web links: Facebook Fan Page https://free.facebook.com/ElizabethEsguerraCastillo Google Plus https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ElizabethCastillo Tzemin Ition Tsai (蔡澤民博士) was born in Taiwan, Republic of China, in 1957. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and two Masters of Science in Applied Mathematics and Chemical Engineering. He is an associate professor at the Asia University (Taiwan), editor of “Reading, Writing and Teaching” academic text. He also writes the long-term columns for Chinese Language Monthly in Taiwan. He is a scholar with a wide range of expertise, while maintaining a common and positive interest in science, engineering and literature member. He has won many national literary awards. His literary works have been anthologized and published in books, journals, and newspapers in more than 40 countries and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Ashok K. Bhargava is a poet, writer, community activist, public speaker, management consultant and a keen photographer. Based in Vancouver, he has published several collections of his poems: Riding the Tide, Mirror of Dreams, A Kernel of Truth, Skipping Stones, Half Open Door and Lost in the Morning Calm. His poetry has been published in various literary magazines and anthologies. Ashok is a Poet Laureate and poet ambassador to Japan, Korea and India. He is founder of WIN: Writers International Network Canada. Its main objective is to inspire, encourage, promote and recognize writers of diverse genres, artists and community leaders. He has received many accolades including Nehru Humanitarian Award for his leadership of Writers International Network Canada, Poets without Borders Peace Award for his journeys across the globe to celebrate peace and to create alliances with poets, and Kalidasa Award for creative writings. Shareef Abdur-Rasheed, AKA Zakir Flo was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. His education includes Brooklyn College, Suffolk County Community College and Makkah, Saudi Arabia. He is a Veteran of the Viet Nam era, where in 1969 he reverted to his now reverently embraced Islamic Faith. He is very active in the Islamic community and beyond with his teachings, activism and his humanity. Shareef’s spiritual expression comes through the persona of "Zakir Flo" . Zakir is Arabic for "To remind". Never silent, Shareef Abdur-Rasheed is always dropping science, love, consciousness and signs of the time in rhyme. Shareef is the Patriarch of the Abdur-Rasheed Family with 9 Children (6 Sons and 3 Daughters) and 41 Grandchildren (24 Boys and 17 Girls). For more information about Shareef, visit his personal FaceBook Page at : https://www.facebook.com/shareef.abdurrasheed1 https://zakirflo.wordpress.com Kimberly Burnham. Find yourself in the pattern. As a 28-year-old photographer, Kimberly Burnham appreciated beauty. Then an ophthalmologist diagnosed her with a genetic eye condition saying, "Consider life, if you become blind." She discovered a healing path with insight, magnificence, and vision. Today, 33 years later, a poet and neurosciences expert with a PhD in Integrative Medicine, Kimberly's life mission is to change the global face of brain health. Using health coaching, Reiki, Matrix Energetics, craniosacral therapy, acupressure, and energy medicine, she supports people in their healing from brain, nervous system, and chronic pain issues. As managing editor of Inner Child Magazine, Kimberly's 2019 project is peace, language, and visionary poetry with her recently published book, Awakenings: Peace Dictionary, Language and the Mind, a Daily Brain Health Program. http://www.NerveWhisperer.Solutions https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberlyburnham Jackie Davis Allen, otherwise known as Jacqueline D. Allen or Jackie Allen, grew up in the Cumberland Mountains of Appalachia. As the next eldest daughter of a coal miner father and a stay at home mother, she was the first in her family to attend and graduate from college. Her siblings, in their own right, are accomplished, though she is the only one, to date, that has discovered the gift of writing. Graduating from Radford University, with a Bachelors of Science degree in Early Education, she taught in both public and private schools. For over a decade she taught private art classes to children both in her home and at a local Art and Framing Shop where she also sold her original soft sculptured Victorian dolls and original christening gowns. She resides in northern Virginia with her husband, taking much needed get-aways to their mountain home near the Blue Ridge Mountains, a place that evokes memories of days spent growing up in the Appalachian Mountains. A lover of hats, she has worn many. Following marriage to her college sweetheart, and as wife, mother, grandmother, teacher, tutor, artist, writer, poet and crafter, she is a lover of art and antiques, surrounding herself, always, with books, seeking to learn more. In 2015 she authored Looking for Rainbows, Poetry, Prose and Art, and in 2017, Dark Side of the Moon. Both books of mostly narrative poetry were published by Inner Child Press and were edited by hulya n. yilmaz. Teresa E. Gallion was born in Shreveport, Louisiana and moved to Illinois at the age of 15. She completed her undergraduate training at the University of Illinois Chicago and received her master’s degree in Psychology from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She retired from New Mexico state government in 2012. She moved to New Mexico in 1987. While writing sporadically for many years, in 1998 she started reading her work in the local Albuquerque poetry community. She has been a featured reader at local coffee houses, bookstores, art galleries, museums, libraries, Outpost Performance Space, the Route 66 Festival in 2001 and the State of Oklahoma’s Poetry Festival in Cheyenne, Oklahoma in 2004. She occasionally hosts an open mic. Teresa’s work is published in numerous Journals and anthologies. She has two CDs: On the Wings of the Wind and Poems from Chasing Light. She has published three books: Walking Sacred Ground, Contemplation in the High Desert and Chasing Light. Chasing Light was a finalist in the 2013 New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards. The surreal high desert landscape and her personal spiritual journey influence the writing of this Albuquerque poet. When she is not writing, she is committed to hiking the enchanted landscapes of New Mexico. You may preview her work at http://bit.ly/1aIVPNq or http://bit.ly/13IMLGh Hulya N. Yilmaz. A retired Liberal Arts professor, hülya n. yılmaz [sic] is Co-Chair and Director of Editing Services at Inner Child Press International, and a literary translator. Her poetry has been published in an excess of sixty anthologies of global endeavors. Two of her poems are permanently installed in TelePoem Booth, a nation-wide public art exhibition in the U.S. She has shared her work in Kosovo, Canada, Jordan and Tunisia. hülya has been honored with a 2018 WIN Award of British Colombia, Canada. She is presently working on three poetry books and a short-story collection. hülya finds it vital for everyone to understand a deeper sense of self and writes creatively to attain a comprehensive awareness for and development of our humanity. hülya n. yılmaz, Ph.D. Writing Web Site hulyanyilmaz.com Editing Web Site hulyasfreelancing.com Alicja Maria Kuberska. Awarded Polish poetess, novelist, journalist, editor. She was born in 1960, in Świebodzin, Poland. She now lives in Inowrocław, Poland. In 2011 she published her first volume of poems entitled: “The Glass Reality”. Her second volume “Analysis of Feelings”, was published in 2012. The third collection “Moments” was published in English in 2014, both in Poland and in the USA. In 2014, she also published the novel - “Virtual roses” and volume of poems “On the border of dream”. Next year her volume entitled “Girl in the Mirror” was published in the UK and “Love me” , “(Not )my poem” in the USA. In 2015 she also edited anthology entitled “The Other Side of the Screen”. In 2016 she edited two volumes: “Taste of Love” (USA), “Thief of Dreams” ( Poland) and international anthology entitled “ Love is like Air” (USA). In 2017 she published volume entitled “View from the window” (Poland). She also edits series of anthologies entitled “Metaphor of Contemporary” (Poland) Her poems have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines in Poland, the USA, the UK, Albania, Belgium, Chile, Spain, Israel, Canada, India, Italy, Uzbekistan, Czech Republic, South Korea and Australia. She was a featured poet of New Mirage Journal ( USA) in the summer of 2011. Alicja Kuberska is a member of the Polish Writers Associations in Warsaw, Poland and IWA Bogdani, Albania. She is also a member of directors’ board of Soflay Literature Foundation. Swapna Behera is a bilingual contemporary poet, author, translator and editor from Odisha, India .She was a teacher from 1984 to 2015 . Her stories, poems and articles are widely published in National and International journals, and ezines, and are translated into different national and International languages. She has penned four books. She was conferred upon the Prestigious International Poesis Award of Honor at the 2nd Bharat Award for Literature as Jury in 2015, The Enchanting Muse Award in India World Poetree Festival 2017, World Icon of Peace Award in 2017, and the Pentasi B World Fellow Poet in 2017.. She is the recipient of Gold Cross Of Wisdom Award ,the medal for The Best Teachers of the World from World Union of Poets in 2018, and The LIfe time Achievement Award ,The Best Planner Award, The Sahitya Shiromani Award, ATAL BiHARI BAJPAYEE AWARD 2018, Ambassador De Literature Award 2018 .She is the Ambassador of Humanity by Hafrikan Prince Art World Africa 2018 and an official member of World Nation’s Writers Union ,Kazakhstan2018. At present she is the manager at Large, Planner and Columnist of The Literati, the administrator of several poetic groups ,the member of the Special Council of Five of World Union of Poets and the Cultural Ambassador of Inner Child Press U.S. Eliza Segiet. After earning a Master's Degree in Philosophy at the Jagiellonian University in Krakaw, Poland, Eliza Segiet proceeded with her post-graduate studies in the fields of Cultural Knowledge, Penal Revenue and Economic Criminal Law, Arts and Literature and Film and Television Production in the Polish city, Lodz. With specific regard to her creative writings, the author describes herself as being torn in her passion for engaging in two literary genres: Poetry and Drama. A similar dichotomy from within is reflected on Segiet’s own words about her true nature: She likes to look at the clouds, but she keeps both of her feet set firmly on the ground. The author describes her worldview as being in harmony with that of Arthur Schopenhauer: "Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it". William S. Peters, Sr. Bill’s writing career spans a period of over 50 years. Being first Published in 1972, Bill has since went on to Author in excess of 40 additional Volumes of Poetry, Short Stories, etc., expressing his thoughts on matters of the Heart, Spirit, Consciousness and Humanity. His primary focus is that of Love, Peace and Understanding! Bill says . . . I have always likened Life to that of a Garden. So, for me, Life is simply about the Seeds we Sow and Nourish. All things we “Think and Do”, will “Be” Cause and eventually manifest itself to being an “Effect” within our own personal “Existences” and “Experiences” . . . whether it be Fruit, Flowers, Weeds or Barren Landscapes! Bill highly regards the Fruits of his Labor and wishes that everyone would thus go on to plant “Lovely” Seeds on “Good Ground” in their own Gardens of Life! to connect with Bill, he is all things Inner Child www.iaminnerchild.com Personal Web Site www.iamjustbill.com
Literature Review Abstract
"This article focuses on the poetry of Jewish lesbian poet Irena Klepfisz, written in New York starting in the 1970s. While drawing on the tradition of Yiddish women's poetry from the first half of the twentieth century, both as scholar and poet, Klepfisz also creates a brand new, bilingual, Yiddish-English poetic mode. By mobilizing both Yiddish and English to voice her poetic and political concerns, Klepfisz stages the English/Yiddish encounter as a site where dominant norms in both languages can be challenged and new possibilities emerge. Exploring both her turn to the past and her bilingual poetry, this article reveals how Klepfisz puts her politics and scholarship to poetic practice and suggests that Klepfisz offers a model of queer translation that undoes the borders between past and present, English and Yiddish, creating a unique mode of Jewish lesbian reclamation and invention." - Weiman-Kelman, Z. (2019). "Legible lesbian lines: The bilingual poetry of Irena Klepfisz." J Lesbian Stud: 1-15. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30625072
"The Mormon Church was my home, my family, my community. I could never have predicted that day, two years ago, when I would send the bishop a letter to ask him to take my name off the rolls of the church; that I would so completely and utterly dissociate myself from the church that I loved so much." — Full Post: I'm Out, Dare to Tell Day 8 at The Story Coach with Lisa Bloom http://story-coach.com/im-out-day-8/
"Thanks so much Lisa. You are very insightful and a pleasure to talk with. I also tell my story in an interview with Ann White at http://creatingcalmwithinchaos.com/summer-series-creating-calms-global-conversations/." —Kimberly Burnham, Transformational author at Amazon Kindle Books, October 15, 2012.
"I thoroughly enjoyed the interview. Great job, Kimberly!" — Stephanie Mullani, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, October 16, 2012. "How wonderful you and Lisa connected and are now part of my "Israel" and "multicultural" tribe. We continue to give voice to our stories beyond Pebbles in the Pond. Kimberly has a fascinating story to share with the world as exhibited in her amazing story in Pebbles in the Pond: Transforming the World One Person at a Time." —Dorit Sasson, Giving a Voice to the Voiceless, www.GivingVoicetoVoicelessBook.com, October 15, 2012. "I'm glad you faced your fears and spoke out for your yourself and others who did not have the strength to do so."— Doreen G. Fulton, CEO & Founder at Believe In A Ray Of Hope Thanks for your comment Doreen, Kimberly story really is inspiring...—Story Coach, October 16, 2012. "You did a difficult, but important and courageous thing. Stepping into the light of your truth is not always an easy process. When one person steps up into their truth, it empowers others in both seen and unseen ways. Namaste!" — Stephanie Mullani • Minneapolis College of Art and Design, October 16, 2012. "That's so true Stephanie, thanks." — Lisa Bloom • CEO & Founder at Story Coach, October 16, 2012 at 2:32pm "Thanks Stephanie Mullani. There is a quote: "A strong person stands up for themselves, a stronger person stands up for others." I am standing up for myself and saying, "This is who I am," in the hopes that others will also be empowered to stand against hate and bigotry, wherever it is found." — Kimberly Burnham • Transformational author at Amazon Kindle Books, October 16, 2012 "Wow, powerful words. I can relate SO much to your story (having grown up Mormon and left the church in college). Thank you for sharing this." —Stephanie Watanabe "Thanks Stephanie. Part of my awakening to the value of diversity and inclusiveness was while I was serving a mission for the Mormon church in Tokyo Japan before returning to Brigham young University and falling in love with a woman." —Kimberly Burnham Transformational author at Amazon Kindle Books. October 16, 2012 There is an idea in the field of neuroscience that different functions of a particular part of the brain are like doorways into the room containing those functions. One function influences others functions. Parietal lobe functions have been linked with an ability to appreciate the oneness of the universe, our relationship and connection to other human beings as well as the ability to take in sensation, move our muscles, regulate anger, feel fear, be kind, pay attention, remember our past, and more. The parietal lobe located on the top right and left aspects of the head also regulates how we hear a story and what we look for in the stories we tell ourselves and others. This paper looks at the functions of the parietal lobe from a neurotheology perspective including, the ways the brain is affected by meditation and mindfulness, the impact of mirror neurons on how we hear stories, how it affects our ability to see oneness and ourselves as part of the whole, the brain's influence on what we believe about other people's intentions, and how the implication of neuroplasticity means beliefs and the brain can change. The research also looks at what we as individuals and societies can do to encourage brain health that increases peaceful relationships between individuals, families, communities, and countries as well as peaceful co-existence with the environment and other living beings. [Read more].
Kimeteiru Words powerful regardless of language the breath beneath propelling them into space thoughts, primal images creating folding them into time. Kimeteiru, a Japanese word for already decided but not just decided by what you have already chosen you chose the path and now the way is already decided. Though nothing is truly already decided each moment can be one of peace or not each moment chosen a new each instant a fork in the road What will you choose now supported by the past enlivening the future what is the fresh choice that makes brilliance world peace sustainability connected conversations Already decided kimeteiru - From the book of poetry: Live Like Someone Left the Gate Open by Kimberly Burnham Kimeteiru on YouTube
Red Juxtaposed
Patterns of red flowing through the fabric of my heart. Rough, red tongued puppy born on a snowy day. Book covering in red, white and orange my chapter, "Fractals: Seeing the Patterns in Our Existence." Edges of red around Time, news on the coffee table. Across the pastel room the hands of time tick against a red background. A brilliant green cycling jersey covering the red of my heart, the blue of my politics. Beet red, "green" drink brightens this February morning. Red intertwined amongst the yellow and green fabric woven with love, a gift from a friend. Bits of ribbon, a velvet book mark, a box of Goddess cards stand as reminders of those I adore. Red framing a beating Japanese character, "Kokoro" at the heart of my mouse pad, token of a far away land where I served my tribe. Tail lights, stop signs, whirling sirens keeping my journey safe as I unearth the colors in my life. — Kimberly Burnham Feature on the cover of the Inner Child Magazine (InnerChildMagazine.com) October 2014 and a published author, Kimberly Burnham, PhD (Integrative Medicine) is an alternative medicine specialist focused on supporting people with Parkinson's disease, Huntington's ataxia, cerebral palsy, seizure disorders, macular degeneration and other brain related issues. Her book, Parkinson's Alternatives is widely available. September, 2014, she presented on alternative medicine approaches to back and hip pain in Parkinson's disease at the Spokane Pain Conference. Kimberly is considered a world authority on Parkinson's disease treatments from the field of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. She offers natural approaches to eliminate Parkinson's and nervous system symptoms. Her publications empower both people with brain disorders and those who love and care about them. Kimberly is also a poet and contributes monthly to a book series by Inner Child Press entitled, The Year of The Poet from the Poetry Posse. In 2013 Kimberly bicycled over 3000 miles from Seattle to Washington, DC on the Hazon Cross USA bicycle ride in support of sustainable agriculture and food justice. She is currently working on a book of poetry about the adventure, The Journey Home, which will be published with the Creating Calm Network Publishing Group. An active social media expert, she is happy to connect on LinkedIn and elsewhere. She lives in Spokane, Washington. With her partner, Elizabeth W. Goldstein and Ann White, Kimberly is editing an anthology published Fall, 2014: Music, Carrier of Intention in 49 Jewish Prayers. Her essay focuses on her connection to the land and the natural environment. It looks at the song Adamah v'Shamayim (earth and sky). Poet and author, Shirley Kiefer, turned 80 years old and then released her debut book, Love Among the God: Myths of Relationships. West Hartford, Connecticut resident, Shirley Kiefer brings feminist insight to ancient mythology. "It is especially important today with the global rise in violence towards women," says Kiefer, a long time educator, passionate about relationships and learning from literature. Her books include: Love Among the Gods: Myths of Relationship by Shirley Kiefer (2014) published by the Creating Calm Network Publishing Group. Kimberly Burnham Vicki Acquah Jill Delbridge S Michael Kozubek Navy Poet Christena Antonia Valaire Williams JRC Starr Poetress Stuart Irving Marshall Carlos L Wilmot Rae Larie Wynne Y Henry Shirley Kiefer Elizabeth E Castillo Shihi Venus Luna Sonlay Gabrielle Denize Newsam J Barrett Wolf Orarinde Fiyinfoluwa Marshal Lisa Christopher Ryan Carlene Beverly Veronica Haunani Fitzhugh Kalisa M Powell ishmael street Terri L Johnson Sonia Valencia Singh Heartspokenniecy Clayton L Sanders DL I Love Davis Rodica Hapecia RiseRa Light Shey Anne Helton Gayle Howell Lady Silk Yolande Barial Arnita D Doggett Charles SeaBe Banks Shequita Phillips Ellen Kashk Steve McGoy Tantra Zawadi Love Quotes Inner Child Stuff Janet P Caldwell William S Peters Sr' “just bill' Todd "thelyfepoet" Smith A Trio of Poems from the book, Live Like Someone Left The Gate Open by Kimberly Burnham at The Wrong Bathroom Blog with Alex https://thewrongbathroom.wordpress.com/tag/kimberley-burnham/
Squinting Against the Light The First Coming Out Comments on poetry from Live Like Someone Left The Gate Open "Beautiful poignant words spoken with softness and a little heartbreak in there too. Thank you for sharing your experience and for having the courage to venture out again." Peace and blessings. Michele D'Acostasaid (May 19, 2013) "I am familiar with the culture you describe and the resigned heartbreak that it seems to expect and almost embrace in those who bravely say “I am gay.” They don’t know what to do with someone who isn’t seeing themselves as broken, gone astray or in need of ‘fixing’. You sound honest, open and progressive, all qualities that, though taught and promoted heavily here (I am in Utah) seem to be lesser applied when they may create a situation of going against the grain or open one to the scrutiny of others- appearances matter so much to some that I feel legit ‘do unto others’ and ‘love thy brother’ teachings go completely by the wayside. Best wishes to you, I salute your courage and am enjoying your blog." Lane (June 11, 2013).
They catch on my tongue, roll around in my cheeks, cause my skin to turn green or orange as I desperately try to blend in with the answers to difficult questions. Common questions send me into hiding or delay in an effort to figure out how long I have for the answer, how much I should say, gauging the situations, the environment, the person asking the questions. Easy questions like, "Where are you from?", "Okay, where were you born?" ,
"Where did you go to school?", "Where do your parents live?" Straightforward questions are unbearable tricky for me. The answers, the intersection point between my straight laced Mormon past and my activist lesbian present. I was born in Provo, Utah, where my parents have returned to live. I graduated with a BSc. in Zoology from Brigham Young University (BYU), so simple cocktail party questions once answered, usually lead to, "Are you Mormon?" I am, five generations back and yes, there were polygamists but then Prop 8 destroyed what was left of my relationship with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter--day Saints (Mormons), the part of the relationship that wasn't already difficult because I kiss a woman, while still at a Mormon university. So, sometimes it is embarrassing, in the circles I run in to admit to being a Mormon, especially with Mitt Romney, running for president of the United States. Simple questions, "Where did you go to school?" send me into a chameleon panic of does this person really want to know all the details or how can I answer truthfully without giving way too much information. It is the same way I feel when someone finds out I speak Japanese, which I learned as a Mormon missionary, although I later returned to Japan to teach English with my girlfriend. There are lots of intersections in my life, certainly between the religion of my childhood and my sexual orientation but lots of others as well. What I have learned from navigating these canyons, like the red rock of Southern Utah, is that the part of my life that I want to hide also connect me to amazing communities, if I can just keep the self hatred at bay. If I can be comfortable in my own unique skin and share myself openly and honestly, and unapologetically, there are ways in which I can connect with anyone, not because we are the same but because we are unique but have some over lapping edges.
1982 graduates Brigham Young University, 1988 authors a chapter in Guide to Gracious Lesbian Living signing only her first name. 2004 denied a marriage license. 2018 marries the love of her life. - Kimberly Burnham
An aphorisms is a terse saying embodying a general truth or astute observation.
Paper Nautilus (2012) An anthology of poetry, short stories, aphorisms and more.. by Lisa Mangini (Editor, Author), Joey Gould (Editor, Author), Kimberly Burnham (Author, Poet), Paul David Adkins (Author), Jeffrey Alfier (Author), Martin Balgach (Author), Janet Barry (Author), Kristin Berkey-Abbott (Author), George Bishop (Author), CL Bledsoe (Author), and Sheri L Wright (Illustrator). Jason Primm, S D Stewart, Duncan Campbell, Melissa Cannon, Darren Cormier, Matthew Denvir, Jacob Edwards, Laren Eyler, Jessica Forcier, Amy Gentile, Jason Hibbitts, Marianna Hofer, Nicole Hospital-Medina, Ann Howells, Marcia Hurlow, Jennifer Roth Jackson, Susan Johnson, Hillary Kobernick, Jean LeBlanc, Kathryn Locey, Edward Manai, Karen McPherson, Kelly McQuain, Zackary Medlin, Ann E Michael, Jesse Minkert, Mack J Mitchell, Brian D Morrison, Rich Murphy, Mike Petrik, Will Pewitt, Frederick Pollack, Melissa Reddish, Stephen R Roberts, Jay Rubin, Michael Saleman, Shae Savoy, Carolyn Foster Segal, Amanda Sibernagel, Gerald Solomon, Jessica Stilling, Doc Suds, Wally Swist, Allison Tobey, Brendan Walsh, William Wells, William Kelley Woolfitt, Mike Wright, and Changming Yuan,
Lisa Mangini (Editor), Kimberly Burnham, Jason Primm, S D Stewart, Paul David Adkins, Jefferey Alfier, Martin Balgach, Janet Barry, Kristen Berkey-Abbott, George Bishop, C L Bledsoe, Duncan Campbell, Melissa Cannon, Darren Cormier, Matthew Denvir, Jacob Edwards, Laren Eyler, Jessica Forcier, Amy Gentile, Jason Hibbitts, Marianna Hofer, Nicole Hospital-Medina, Ann Howells, Marcia Hurlow, Jennifer Roth Jackson, Susan Johnson, Hillary Kobernick, Jean LeBlanc, Kathryn Locey, Edward Manai, Karen McPherson, Kelly McQuain, Zackary Medlin, Ann E Michael, Jesse Minkert, Mack J Mitchell, Brian D Morrison, Rich Murphy, Mike Petrik, Will Pewitt, Frederick Pollack, Melissa Reddish, Stephen R Roberts, Jay Rubin, Michael Saleman, Shae Savoy, Carolyn Foster Segal, Amanda Sibernagel, Gerald Solomon, Jessica Stilling, Doc Suds, Wally Swist, Allison Tobey, Brendan Walsh, William Wells, William Kelley Woolfitt, Mike Wright, Changming Yuan, Sheri L Wright. (2012). Paper Nautilus 2012. Published by Paper Nautilus.
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860-221-8510 phone and what's app. Skype: Kimberly Burnham (Spokane, Washington) NerveWhisperer@gmail.com Author of Awakenings, Peace Dictionary, Language and the Mind, a Daily Brain Health and P as in Peace, Paix and Perdamiam: an Inner Peace Journal To Stimulate The Brain Kimberly Burnham, The Nerve Whisperer, Brain Health Expert, Professional Health Coach for people with Alzheimer's disease, Memory Issues, Parkinson's disease, Chronic Pain, Huntington's Ataxia, Multiple Sclerosis, Keratoconus, Macular Degeneration, Diabetic Neuropathy, Traumatic Brain Injuries, Spinal Cord Injuries, Brain Health Coaching ... Contact Kimberly Burnham in Spokane Washington (860) 221-8510 NerveWhisperer@gmail.com. Chat with Kimberly about Parkinson's, Poetry or other Brain related issues.
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Poet-In-Residence Position
I am looking for guest blog opportunities and a position as poet-in-residence. My current project is writing dictionary poems using words in different languages for the English word "peace." You can read some of my poems on Poemhunter . As poet-in-residence I would write poems on different words in different languages and broadcast them throughout the social media blogosphere. Each poem would link back to your site where the word or language appeared. I would expect some sort of stipend and a six month to one year placement. Please contact me for details if your organization is interested in having a poet-in-residence to help get your message out. Nervewhisperer@gmial.com Buy the print or eBook, review Awakenings then contact Kimberly for a free 20 minute brain health consultation. Email or Phone
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