Don Byrd

Don Byrd:  is a poet, sound artist, and Professor of English at SUNY / Albany. In 1984, his chapbook, Technics of Travel, was published by Zealot-Tansy. His first book-length poem was Aesop’s Garden, (North Atlantic, Plainfied, Vermont) and his second book-length poem, The Great Dimestore Centennial, is published by Station Hill. His Charles Olson’s Maximus is published by Southern Illinois University Press and his important The Poetics of the Common Knowledge is published by SUNY University Press. In his lifetime, he proposes to complete one-hundred volumes that will complete a set which he refers to as The Nomad’s Encyclopedia.