PUBLIC NOTICE | FORMAL CEASE AND DESIST

holly burgess issues FORMAL CEASE & DESIST to Marquette university

Sun 04/05/26 10:03 PM

NOTICE OF RESCISSION

Monday, April 6, 2026 at 7:19 PM

ALL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND EXPRESSIONS OF GRATITUDE REGARDING MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY, ITS ADMINISTRATION, AND ITS DONOR NETWORKS ARE HEREBY FORMALLY RESCINDED.

This action is taken pending the outcome of a Federal Civil Rights and Whistleblower Audit.

This site and its associated research on "Transcribing Brutality" now serve as a record of administrative and fiduciary negligence. Any further unauthorized use of my likeness or intellectual property by the institution is subject to immediate legal action.

Poetry is like air. It’s one of the necessary things. Everyone benefits from poetry. And, as you know, poetry is international.
— Nikki Giovanni

Published poetry

“With Bated Breath (In Memory of Greg).”

2024

Marquette Literary Review, no XVI, 29. April 2024.


“We’ll Never Have Paris.”

2019

Marquette Literary Review, no. XII.


“The Beckoning of the Sacred Willows.” 

2019

Marquette Literary Review, no XII. May 2019.


“Lost Soul.” 

2019

Marquette Literary Review, no. XII.


“From Selma to Ferguson.” 

2019

Straylight Literary Arts Magazine, vol. 13, no. 1, 32.


“On My Ancestors’ Backs.” 

2019

Straylight Literary Arts Magazine.


Poetry readings

“With Bated Breath (In Memory of Greg)”

2024

Marquette Literary Review Issue 16 Launch
Marquette University


“From Selma to Ferguson”

2015

Death and All His Friends Conference
English Department
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside


Video of Holly E. Burgess reciting her poem, “With Bated Breath (In Memory of Greg)”, an ode to her late father, at the Marquette Literary Review Issue 16 Launch in April 2024.

Video of Holly Burgess reciting her poem, “With Bated Breath (In Memory of Greg)” originally published in Marquette Literary Review. On the second anniversary of her father, Greg Burgess’s passing, Holly reflects on the significance of the poem and how her father’s life.