The Holloway Series in Poetry - Brenda Coultas and Wayde Compton
WAYDE COMPTON is the author of two book of poetry: 49th Parallel Psalm (1999), which re-imagines the migration of the first blacks to British Columbia from San Francisco, and Performance Bond (2004), which comes with a sound poem called The Reinventing Wheel. He co-founded Commodore Books, edited Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature (2001), and is part of the hip-hop performance group The Contact Zone Crew. BRENDA COULTAS is the author of five books of poetry, from the innovative fictions of her Early Films (1996) to her most recent, the historical bricolage The Marvelous Bones of Time: Excavations and Explanations (2007). She was born in Indiana, studied at Naropa University with Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg, and lives in New York City. Each writer, she writes, must make and break her own rules. holloway.english.berkeley.edu/
