Event Speaker: Gregory Betts

Gregory Betts is a poet and professor whose work consistently explores concrete, constrained, or collaborative poetics. He is the author of 11 books of poetry, including BardCode (2024) a visual rendering of the sound patterns in Shakespeare’s sonnets. His poems have been stenciled into the sidewalks of St. Catharines and selected by the SETI Institute to be implanted into the surface of the moon. He performed at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, as part of the Cultural Olympiad. He is the curator of the bpNichol.ca Digital Archive, and author of the award-winning books Finding Nothing: the VanGardes 1959-1975 and Avant-Garde Canadian Literature.