Sit and Cry: Two Years In the Land of Smiles

Burgess Needle was a school librarian in Tucson, Arizona before retiring and moving to Ripton, Vermont. His poetry and fiction has appeared in Connotation Press, Blackbox Manifold (UK), Concho River Review, Raving Dove, Boston Literary Magazine, Centrifugal Eye, Iodine, Blue Lake Review, Nutshell (UK) and DeComp among others. Publications include: Every Crow in the Blue Sky, Thai Comic Books, and Faded Photo Brings It Back. He taught English for two years in northeast Thailand for the Peace Corps.