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Poetry Month

April 2021 marks the 25th annual celebration of poets and poetry.

SPC Faculty Poet, Greg Byrd

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Gregory Byrd’s poems have appeared widely in journals such as the Tampa Review, Apalachee Review, Cortland Review, Poeteka (Albania, in translation).  Among his poetry books are Salt and Iron (Snake Nation, 2014), At Penuel (Split Oak, 2011) and Florida Straits (Yellowjacket Press, 2005). The Name for the God Who Speaks won the Robert Phillips Prize in 2018.  An excerpt from his WWI flying novel, Where Shadow Meets Water, appears in Apalachee Review.  He has received a Creative Pinellas Rapid Returns Fellowship, Fulbright Fellowship, an SPC Distinguished Teaching Award and a Pushcart Prize Nomination.  Greg has degrees in writing and literature from Eckerd College, Florida State University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He teaches writing and humanities at St. Petersburg College.

Website: https://www.gregorybyrd.org/

Read online: https://www.gregorybyrd.org/copy-of-books

Books available at SPC Libraries:

Greg Byrd Poetry Readings: