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GREGORY BYRD
Publications
Books:
The Name for the God Who Speaks. Texas Review Press, 2019
Glass Bottom Sky: 10 Years of Yellowjacket Press. Ed. (with Silvia Curbelo).
YellowJacket press, 2015.
Salt and Iron. Snake Nation Press, 2014
At Penuel. Split Oak Press (2010)
Florida Straits. Yellow Jacket Press, 2005.
Fiction:
"Homestead." Downtime Review. Forthcoming April 2024.
"Littoral Zone." Tampa Review 66. (Fall 2023): 38-41.
"White on White." Willow Springs 90 (Fall 2022): 33-39.
"Independence Day, 1921," from Where Shadow Meets Water. The Copperfield Review. November 2021.
“Dite e Veres.” Baltimore Review. Winter 2021.
“March 18, 1923: Pas de Calais, Near Arras,” from Where Shadow Meets Water
The Apalachee Review 68 (Fall/Summer 2018).
“Circular Reasoning.” The Siren. Spring 1997.
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Creative Nonfiction
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"An Equinox." Saw Palm. Winter 2020/21.
"A Toast to Our Fathers." Creative Loafing. June 17, 2018. Web.
"Deer Hunting in the Everglades." Odet. Winter 2017: 29-32.
"Color in Tirana." The Manila Envelope. Fall 2012. Web.
"The Zen of Restaurants." From Plate to Palate. Connotation Press. Oct 2010. Web.
"Making Carly a Sailor." Good Old Boat 64 (January/February 2009): 67-69.
"Things That Go Grump In the Night." Tampa Bay Times. August 31, 2005.
"Through Adversity, to the Stars." Sunday Journal. St. Petersburg Times 2 Feb 2003: 1F.
"Shivering in the Sunshine State." American Motorcyclist Feb 2002: 46.
Private Lives column. St. Petersburg Times 18 April 1999: 3F.
Private Lives column. St. Petersburg Times 19 January 1994: D1.
Private Lives column. St. Petersburg Times 17 November 1996: 8F.
Private Lives Column. 19 January 1994. Tampa Bay Times: 1D
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Poetry:
"Telephone Call." Urthona Buddhist Arts Magazine. (forthcoming Summer 2024)
"Theory of Gravity" Chameleon Chimera: An Anthology of Florida Poets (Fall 2023)
"Pecky Cypress." South Florida Poetry Journal. ( February 2023).
"He Wanted to Talk to Birds." Puerto del Sol 56.1 (Fall 2021): 189-190.
"Memory: White on White." Open: Journal of Arts and Letters. 2021
"Elegy for Bob Payne." Eckerd Review 2021: 78.
"Chrysalis" and "Night Vision." Sandhill Review 22 (2021): 25 and 39.
“A First World War Veteran Recounts the Hurricane of 1921,” Chasing Light: Poems Inspired by the Burgert Brothers Photographs. Gianna Russo, Editor. Yellowjacket Press, 2020.
“for Paul Zweig.” South Florida Poetry Journal. May 2018.
“The Girl and the Cello,” “How to Bow,” and “No Country for Young Men.” And the Rocks Will Hum, a Peter Meinke commemorative volume. Winter 2017.
“Late Trail.” Pinyon. Commemorative Issue. (Spring 2016): 70.
“This is the Name for the God Who Speaks.” Apalachee Review 66 (Fall 2016): 54.
“6th Century Chronometer,” “Deer Hunting in the Everglades,” “Whistling.” Glass Bottom Sky: 10 Years of YellowJacket Press. Silvia Curbelo and Gregory Byrd, Eds. YellowJacket Press,
2015.
“Dark Lesson.” The Eckerd Review. Spring 2014.
“Salt and Iron,(video) ” “Dark Lesson,” “No Country for Young Men.” Fables of the Eco Future. Gallery Show. Hambidge
Center for the CreativeArts and Sciences. Rabun Gap, Georgia. March 30-June 8, 2013. Also as hardbound
printed volume.
“Gjuetia e drerit ne Everglades” (“Deer Hunting in the Everglades”), “Teoria e gravitetit”
(“Theory of Gravity”), “Ne Penuel” (“At Penuel”), Trans. Arian
Leka. Poeteka 19(Autumn 2011).
“Gjuetia e drerit ne Everglades” (“Deer Hunting in the Everglades”), “Teoria e gravitetit” (“Theory of Gravity”), “Ne
Penuel” (“At Penuel”), Trans. Arian Leka. Milosao 17 April 2011: 8-9.
”Orpheus Today” Eckerd Review 2011
“Going for the Honey” and “Palafox Road” Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature (Fall 2008)
“Ras Gene” Apalachee Review 57 (Fall 2007)
“Dusk,” The Cortland Review 36 (August 2007)
“Woman at the Airport Bar.” The Rambler Jan/Feb 2007: 52.
"High School All-Star" and "Ted Williams' Toothpick." Gulf Stream 26 (2006): 23-26.
"White Rose" and "Introduction to American Literature." Snake Nation Review.
"Advice" and "First Cold" Eckerd College Review. Spring 2006.
“Why Men Work,” “What Galahad Could Not Do,” “A Fire Between Them and
Everything Else.” Family Matters: Poems of Our Families. Bottom Dog
Press, 2005.
“After Being Asked What I Thought of Neruda’s ‘The Enigmas.’”
The Cortland Review 26 (Spring 2004).
"Tintoretto Painting His Dead Daughter (after Leon Cogniet)" and
"Groundhog Day (after Andrew Wyeth)" Ekphrasis 3.1
(Spring/Summer 2003): 18-19.
"Plantation Key Dump" and "Swimming the Green Canals with an Old
Dog." Apalachee Review 51(Spring/Summer 2002): 40-43.
"Crossing the Appalachians by Motorcycle," and "Monk Parrots." you
are here: the journal of creative geography 4.1 (Summer 2002): 30-31.
“Bourbon.” MacGuffin. 16.3 (Fall 1999): 104.
“Antique Store.” Poet Lore. 93.4 (Winter 1998-99): 13.
Featured Poet: “Claire de Lune,” “Salvage,” “Tintoretto Painting his Dead
Daughter (after Leon Cogniet), ” “Britain’s Chief Executioner Dies,”
“Space Shuttle Discovery Orbits Near Enough to Be Seen with Naked
Eye.” Pinyon Poetry 5 (Spring 1998): 22-30.
“What Red Clay Holds.” The Siren. Spring 1997.
“Writing the Rosetta Stone.” Poet Lore 92.2 (Summer 1997): 22.
“Theory of Gravity.” Tampa Review 16 (Summer 1998): 24.
*Nominated for a 1998 Pushcart Prize
“Handwork.” Scarp 28 (May 1996): 39. (New South Wales, Australia).
“Skydiving.” New CollAge 24.3 and 25.1 (1996): 9.
“The Caller’s Message.” Tampa Review 11 (Fall 1995): 32.
“Farewell to Lincoln Square.(video)” College English 57.3 (March 1995): 337
“Tarpon.” Scarp 26 (May 1995): 51. (New South Wales, Australia).
“Deer Hunting in the Everglades. (video)” International Quarterly 1.4 (1994): 98.
“Letter to a Musician Who Has Lost the Ability to Remember,” “Thrift Store,”
“Tarpon,” and “Insomnia.” The Panhandler 28 (1994): 10-16.
“Late Epithalamion.” Tampa Review 9 (Fall 1994): 52.
“Handing Down the Dead.” Pavement Saw (Spring 1994): 28.
“Neck Tie” and “Trolling.” New Collage 23.1-2 (Spring 1993): 26-7.
“Music for Atlanta.” Birmingham Poetry Review 9 (Fall/Winter 1992):6.
“A Preacher’s Wife Recalls Georgia.” Tampa Bay Review 3.2 (1991):22.
“Ostwind.” Sundog 11.1 (1991): 28.
“Why I Watch James Bond.” Whiskey Island Magazine (Fall 1990): 36.
“Wyler’s Blues.” Half Tones to Jubilee (1990): 30.
“Meeting Jeff at Mrs. Mac’s Grill.” Panhandler (1990).
“Burning Clean” and Loggerhead.” New CollAge 21.2 (1990): 6.
“Whistling.” North of Wakulla (Anhinga Press Anthology: 1989): 154.
“Whistling.” Gryphon 13.1 (1988): 12.
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Photography
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“Lowtide Sunset, Dunedin, Florida,” “Sheepdog, Apollonia, Albania,” “No Gondola.” Roads Traveled Landscape Exhibit. Cloudfolios Feb 1, 2019. https://www.cloudfolios.com/exhibitions/117/gallery/?fldPage=2
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