Gregory Betts is a poet and professor at Brock University. His work consistently explores concrete, constrained, or collaborative poetics. He is the author of 11 books of poetry, including recent titles such as Foundry (Ireland 2021), The Fabulous Op (Ireland 2021, with Gary Barwin), and Sweet Forme (Australia 2020). His poems have been stencilled into the sidewalks of St. Catharines, Ontario 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, and has travelled and performed extensively across Canada, the US, and Europe. He is the curator of the bpNichol.ca Digital Archive, and author of the award-winning scholarly monographs Finding Nothing: the VanGardes 1959-1975 and Avant-Garde Canadian Literature.
