BIO
John Byrum is a visual poet who
has been putting texts together since 1972. He has completed
over twenty books of poetry. From 1976 to the present, his
work has appeared in chapbooks, anthologies and magazines
around the world. His work is collected in libraries worldwide,
as well as in private collections, such as the Ruth and Marvin
Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry.
Byrum is editor and publisher
of Generator Press, which publishes GENERATOR, a magazine
of international experimental, visual and language materials,
and the Generator chapbook series, which presents works by
a wide range of contemporary visual and language poets. In
November, 2002, the website www.generatorpress.com was established,
primarily as the publication site for the latest issue of
GENERATOR magazine, GENERATOR 12.
His interests range from art and
poetry to history, philosophy, cognitive neuroscience, physics,
and cosmology. He likes to say that he is studying what
we know, the status of knowing and of the known, and how
we know what we think we know. Byrum’s notion is that art
is a culturated mode of expression which should draw upon
the fullest ranges of experience possible, and even then
find itself incomplete. |