About

Fork Burke is a poet currently living in Switzerland. Fork Burke received her BA in Creative Writing from The New School

Recent works have appeared in Tsunami Gang – Paris Lit Up – Those That This and Maintenant: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing & Art.

I Will Be Different Every Time: Black Women in Beil 2020 (Co editior) – Licking Glass  2010  a book of poems, poetic essays and other images. Licking Glass is also included in the permanent collection of Poets House Library, NY –  33 – A Checklist Journal

I Will Be Different Every Time – Die Literaturpreise Des Kantons Bern 2021

Recordings include

Durch Die Blumen

Fork Remixed

Switzerland

2024 CONVEERGENCE – Zürich

2024 Curator for episodes – The international festival of spoken word and experimental narratives Somewhere in between A and Z  – Lumpen Station

2024 SO SO Space Spoken Word evening Curator – Bern

2024 Lumpen Station Spoken Word Curator – Biel/Bienne

2024 Living Library – Bern University Library

2024 Text! Literature in Conversation – Bern University Library UB

2024 Y-Talks – Workshop – Bern

2023 #33 Checklist Haus am Gern Vernissage – Biel/Bienne

2023 Bone Performance Literature Festival -With Max Usata – Bern

2023 CAT Talk – Master of Arts in Contemporary Arts Practice (MA CAP) – Bern

2023 Dada 2023 Zurich @ Château Hornegg Au Lac – Zürich

2023 WORD FLEX: Three Rooms Press – Book Launch – Biel/Bienne

2023 Wide Awake Language Waiting Sounds
Fork Burke, Word; Sebastian Rotzler, Sound – Nidau

2023 Created Text for Simone Haug’s Photography Book “Alizé” – The Books The Books

2023 Maintenant 17 – A Journal of Contemporary DADA Writing & Art – Three Rooms Press – Zürich

2023 A Reason A Season A Lifetime And All The Voices In Your Head That Are Missing – Theater Spektakel – Zürich

2023 In Bed With “Club Literature” Theater Spektakel – Zürich

2023 There Are No Words – Vignes du Pasquart – Biel/Bienne

2023 Dog’s Catch film by Elijah Graf

2023 not an island_in Körpern getragen – Aarau

2022 Wide Awake Language Awaiting Sound with Sebastian Rotzler – Nidau

2022 Salopard – Poetry Music Checklist with Boni Joi and Max Usata – Biel/Bienne

2022 Cafe Revolution – Bern

2022 Espace Libre – It`s already started to write itself – Biel/Bienne

2022 ClubLiterature – Dream Machine – Bern

2022  MIDISSAGE – Haus am Gern – Flo Kaufmann Cosmic Orgone Exploration – Biel/Bienne

2022 Kafi Blickfabrik Zürich

2022 33 – Checklist Journal – Haus am Gern

2022 sense of forest – KASKO Basel

2021 Center for the Study of Language and Society at the University of Bern,  “Language and Harm: Why Words Are Important” – Panel discussion

2021 AND – Video clip poem – Video produced and directed by Paris Heretics

2020 Co editor of  I Will Be Different Every Time: Black Women In Biel – Verlag die Brotsuppe

2020 Reader – Robert Walser Sculpture – Biel/Bienne

2019 Reading Alvin Lucier`s I Am Sitting In A Room

2019 33 – Checklist Journal – Haus am Gern

2019 Checklist #1 I Never Read Art Book Fair – Basel

2019 Hors Lit – Biel/Bienne

2019 Wall & Stage – Zurich

2019 MEND – Lokal-Int – Biel/Bienne

2019 Hugo Panzer Festival – Biel/Bienne

2019 Dock Basel – Basel

2019 KlHaus “a vague surprise” – Biel/Bienne

2019 A Conversation – Luzern

2017 INTERKLANG – Biel/Bienne

2017 Reclaim Anger – KOSMOS, Zurich

2017 FELIX – Bern

2017 SOUND AND COFFEE – La Voirie Biel/Bienne
2017 CLIP 60 Seconds – Espace Libre, Biel/Bienne
2016 Reclaim Anger – Theater Neumarkt, Zurich
2015 Durch die Blumen Spoken Word
2015 trave_logue – Basel
2015 Kunsthalle Zurich – Hannah Weiner Exhibition
2015 Meta Marie Louise – Biel/Bienne
2014 Hugo Panzer Trio – Biel/Bienne
2013 Billi – Biel/Bienne
2013 Salon Walden – Basel
2012 Lyrics for Troika Trash – Biel/Bienne
2012 A Word For A Play (Text Contribution) – Kunsthaus Baselland
2012 and 2011 Du Commerce – Biel/Bienne
2012 LeDésir – live radio show – Art Basel
2012 Basel Kunstmuseum – Radio Reading
2012 Lyrics for BLOOD by Nick Porsche
2012 The Shanghai Tunnels Project: International Video Poetry Festival
2011 Progress Constellation “TEIG” – Text Contribution – Georgia
2011 Checklist – Lokal-Int – Biel/Bienne

Brussels

2014 The First Brussels International Underground Poetry Festival

Paris

2023 Maintenant 17 – A Journal of Contemporary DADA Writing & Art – Three Rooms Press

2022 Maintenant 16 – A Journal of Contemporary DADA Writing & Art – Three Rooms Press

2021 Maintenant 15 – A Journal of Contemporary DADA Writing & Art – Three Rooms Press

2019  Exposition Turtle Bienvenue

2019 Paris Lit Up – Culture Rapid

2019 Inter-Zones Manifeste (Lectrue & Lives) #2

2018 Maintenant 12 – A Journal of Contemporary DADA Writing & Art
2017 Paris Lit Up #5 Checklist
2017 Open Secret Reading Series
2017 Berkeley Books of Paris/Academy of American Poets Series
2017 DADA – The Paris Launch of Maintenant 11
2016 DADA – The Paris Launch of Maintenant 10
2016 Berkeley Books of Paris
2015 Spoken Word Paris

2015 DADA – The Paris Launch of Maintenant 9
2014 DADA – The Paris Launch of Maintenant 8
2013 DADA – The Paris Launch of Maintenant 7