Photo: Glen Lowry

Wayde Compton is a Vancouver writer whose books include 49th Parallel Psalm, Performance Bond and Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature. He and Jason de Couto perform turntable-based sound poetry as a duo called The Contact Zone Crew. Compton is also a co-founding member of the Hogan's Alley Memorial Project, an organization dedicated to preserving the public memory of Vancouver's original black community. (See HAMP's blog here.) He is also one of the publishers of Commodore Books. Wayde Compton teaches in Simon Fraser University's Writing and Publishing Program, where he is a creative writing instructor in The Writer's Studio; he also teaches English composition and literature at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and Coquitlam College.

Recent links of interest :

Lani Russwurm's Past Tense: Fragments of Vancouver History

Crawford Kilian on Mifflin Gibbs

Lauren Marsden & HAMP: Hogan's Alley Welcomes You

Chartrand, Compton, Okano & Mochizuki: Lost and Found

Hypertext poems, for an SFU class