Bobby Byrd

Poet, essayist and publisher, Bobby Byrd, with his wife Lee, received the Lannan Fellowship for Cultural Freedom in 2006. With his son John Byrd, he is co-editor of Puro Border: Dispatches, Graffiti and Snapshots from the U.S./Mexico Border and Lone Star Noir . He has published numerous books of poetry, most recently White Panties, Dead Friends & Other Bits & Pieces of Love (2006).

Poet, essayist and publisher, Bobby Byrd, with his wife Lee, received the Lannan Fellowship for Cultural Freedom in 2006. With his son John Byrd, he is co-editor of Puro Border: Dispatches, Graffiti and Snapshots from the U.S./Mexico Border and Lone Star Noir . He has published numerous books of poetry, most recently White Panties, Dead Friends & Other Bits & Pieces of Love (2006). See less