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BOOKS Compton, Wayde. 49th Parallel Psalm. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press-Advance Editions, 1999. [poetry and short fiction] -. Ed. Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2001. [anthology] -. Performance Bond. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004. [poetry, short fiction and compact disc sound recording]
CRITICISM Compton, Wayde. "Blackvoice and Stately Ways: Isaac Dickson, Mifflin Gibbs and Black British Columbia's First Trials of Authenticity." Untold Stories of British Columbia. Ed. Paul Wood. Victoria: U of Victoria Humanities Centre, 2003. 15-28. -. "Culture at the Crossroads: Voodoo Aesthetics and the Axis of Blackness in Literature of the Black Diaspora." A Pepper-Pot of Cultures: Aspects of Creolization in the Caribbean. Eds. Gordon Collier and Ulrich Fleischmann. Spec. issue of Matatu 27-28 (2003): ?. -. "'Even the Stars Are Temporal': The Historical Motion of George Elliott Clarke's Saltwater Spirituals and Deeper Blues." North: New African Canadian Writing. Ed. Peter Hudson. Spec. issue of West Coast Line 31.1, No. 22 (Spring/Summer 1997): 156-63. -. "Out Here a Minute: The Biracial Local, By Ear." Event 32.1 (Spring 2003): 7-9. -. "The Reinventing Wheel: On Blending the Poetry of Cultures Through Hip Hop Turntablism." Horizon Zero 8 (June 2003). 21 July 2004. http://www.horizonzero.ca/textsite/remix.php?is=8&art=0&file=7&tlang=0
INTERVIEWS Compton, Wayde. "Between Silence and Speech: Danzy Senna: The Matrix Interview." Matrix 71 (Summer 2005): 16- 18. -. "Black Writers in Search of Place: A Three-way Conversation About History, Role Models, and Inventing 'The Black Atlantis'." Interview with Esi Edugyan and Karina Vernon. The Tyee (28 Feb. 2005). 1 Mar. 2005 http://www.thetyee.ca/Life/2005/02/28/BlackWriters/. -. "Self-Interview." Side/Lines: A New Canadian Poetics. Ed. Rob McLennan. Toronto: Insomniac Press, 2002. 81-86. -. With Kevin McNeilly. "The Crime of Poetry: George Elliott Clarke in Conversation." Interview with George Elliott Clarke. Canadian Literature 182 (Fall 2004): 53-64. Delva, John. "Bullets, Images and Painted Brick." The Link: Concordia's Independent Newspaper (5 Oct. 2004). 20 Oct. 2004 http://thelink.concordia.ca/article.pl?sid=04/10/04/2131221. [interview and profile] Gill, Alexandra. "Tracing the Roots of Black B.C." Rev. of Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature, ed. Wayde Compton. Globe and Mail [Toronto] 5 Feb. 2002: R1+. [interview and review] Lanthier, Nancy. Interview with Wayde Compton. Queue. Vancouver Sun 17-24 Feb. 2005: ?. Lord, Bruce. "The Rain and the Sidewalk: Splashing through the Puddle-wonderful World of Vancouver's Trevor Thompson." Interview with Trevor Thompson and Wayde Compton. Terminal City [Vancouver] 4-10 Nov. 2004: 11. Martin, James. "Straight outta Wayde Compton: Vancouver Poet Remixes West Coast History in 49th Parallel Psalm, by Wayde Compton." Rev. of 49th Parallel Psalm. FFWD Weekly 14-21 Oct. 1999. 21 July 2004 http://www.ffwdweekly.com/Issues/1999/1014/book1.html. [interview and review] McKenzie, Geoff. "Straight outta Compton: Wayde Compton Performs for Black History Month." Calgary Straight 17-24 Feb. 2000: 8. [interview and profile] McLennan, Rob. "Wayde Compton: The Matrix Interview." Matrix 67 (Summer 2004): 14-17. Rader, Aubyn. "Cutting the Record: An Interview with Wayde Compton." Memewar 5 (spring 2008): 4-11. Smedman, Lisa. "Hogan's Alley Heart of Black Community." Vancouver Courier 23 Feb. 2005, westside ed.: 40-41. [interview and history] Smith, Janet. "Reviving a Lost Black Heritage." Rev. of Hogan's Alley Revisitied, curated by the Hogan's Alley Memorial Project. Georgia Straight 20-27 Feb. 2003: 62. [interview and art exhibition review] Stouck, David and Myler Wilkinson. "The Epic Moment: An Interview with Wayde Compton." Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies 9.1 (2002): 57-68. Stouck, David and Myler Wilkinson. "The Epic Moment: An Interview with Wayde Compton." West Coast Line 36.2, No. 38 (Fall 2002): 130-45. "Wayde Compton: Hogan's Alley's Hero." Rev. of Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature, ed. Wayde Compton. BC BookWorld 16.1 (Spring 2002): 20-21. [interview and review]
NON-FICTION Compton, Wayde. "Black and White in Point Grey." Vancouver Sun 23 Oct. 1999: E4. -. "Hey Dad: A Letter from Jimi." Obituary for James Allen "Al" Hendrix. New York Times Magazine (29 Dec. 2002): 25. -. "The Reinventing Wheel: On Blending the Poetry of Cultures Through Hip Hop Turntablism." Horizon Zero 8 (April/May 2003): <http://www.horizonzero.ca/textsite/remix.php?is=8&art=0&file=7&tlang=0>. .-. "Under My Skin." Saturday Night Magazine Nov. 1999: 27-28.
POETRY -. "Afro-Saxon." Race Poetry, Eh? Ed. Ashok Mathur. Spec. issue of Prairie Fire 21.4, No. 93 (Mar. 2001): 73. -. "Alley Blues." In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry. Eds. Kate Braid and Sandy Shreve. Vancouver: Polestar, 2005. 47-48. -. "Backlight Compensation Blues." Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver. Ed. Karen Love. Vancouver: Presentation House Gallery-Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002. 82. -. "Band." North: New African Canadian Writing. Ed. Peter Hudson. Spec. issue of West Coast Line 31.1, No. 22 (Spring/Summer 1997): 14-17. -. "Band." Poetry Nation: The North American Anthology of Fusion Poetry. Ed. Todd Swift and Reggie Cabico. Montréal: Véhicule Press, 1998. 245-47. -. "Bluer Blues." Side/Lines: A New Canadian Poetics. Ed. Rob McLennan. Toronto: Insomniac Press, 2002. 89-92. -. From "Blues for a Multiculture." HypheNation: A Mixed Race Issue. Eds. Mark Tadao Nakada, Louise Saldanha, Aruna Srivastava. Spec. issue of Absinthe 9.2 (1996): 8-9. -. "(Bottle)(Poems)." Judy 2 (1999): N. pag. [art objects and poetry] -. "Come To." Poetry Nation: The North American Anthology of Fusion Poetry. Ed. Todd Swift and Reggie Cabico. Montréal: Véhicule Press, 1998. 243-44. -. "Company." Kola 11.1 (1999): 52-54. -. "Damn." Tads 5 (August 1999): 48. -. "Declaration of the Halfrican Nation." HypheNation: A Mixed Race Issue. Eds. Mark Tadao Nakada, Louise Saldanha, Aruna Srivastava. Spec. issue of Absinthe 9.2 (1996): 10-11. -. "Declaration of the Halfrican Nation." Literary Review of Canada 12.9 (Nov. 2004): 18. -. "Declaration of the Halfrican Nation." Companions and Horizons: An Anthology of Simon Fraser University Poetry. Ed. Stephen Collis. Burnaby, BC: West Coast Line Books, 2005. 91-92. -. "DJ." Judy 1 (Spring 1998): N. pag. -. "DJ." Companions and Horizons: An Anthology of Simon Fraser University Poetry. Ed. Stephen Collis. Burnaby, BC: West Coast Line Books, 2005. 88-90. -. "Evening at the Colonial: I-III." Tads 4 (1998): 19-23. -. "Extraction." The Peak: Simon Fraser University's Student Newspaper 89.4 (30 Jan. 1995). 21 July 2004. http://www.peak.sfu.ca/the- peak/95-1/issue4/extract.html. -. "Forty-ninth Parallel Psalm." North: New African Canadian Writing. Ed. Peter Hudson. Spec. issue of West Coast Line 31.1, No. 22 (Spring/Summer 1997): 18-23. -. "Illegalese: Floodgate Dub." Race Poetry, Eh? Ed. Ashok Mathur. Spec. issue of Prairie Fire 21.4, No. 93 (Mar. 2001): 74. -. "James Brown at Midnight, My Parents Dancing." Prism International 28.2 (Winter 1990): 39. -. "JD." Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature. Ed. Wayde Compton. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002. 272-73. -. "Jinx." Tads 6 (2001): N. pag. -. "Jump Rope Rhyme of the 49er Daughters." In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry. Eds. Kate Braid and Sandy Shreve. Vancouver: Polestar, 2005. 46-47. -. "Legba, Landed." Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature. Ed. Wayde Compton. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002. 274-76. -. "Legba, Landed." North: New African Canadian Writing. Ed. Peter Hudson. Spec. issue of West Coast Line 31.1, No. 22 (Spring/Summer 1997): 11-13. -. "Legba, Landed." Step into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature. Ed. Kevin Powell. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2000. 320-22. -. "Libations from the Snake's Teeth." Diaspora 2 (1994): 28-29. -. "Loxodromic." XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 18 (2007): 64-65. -. "MC." Companions and Horizons: An Anthology of Simon Fraser University Poetry. Ed. Stephen Collis. Burnaby, BC: West Coast Line Books, 2005. 86-87. -. "No." Westword 1.5 (January 1999): 28-29. -. "O." Ibid. 30-31. -. "Pillar." Capilano Review 2.29 (Fall 1999): 57-59. -. "Poem for Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Not for Art's Sake." Anti-Racism Issue. Eds. Ashok Mathur and Sourayan Mookerjea. Spec. issue of Rungh 4.1-2 (1998): 20-23. -. "Radio Jazz Remix." Callaloo 30.2 (Spring 2007): 546. -. "Red Light Blues." Capilano Review 2.29 (Fall 1999): 60-61. -. From "The Reinventing Wheel." Side/Lines: A New Canadian Poetics. Ed. Rob McLennan. Toronto: Insomniac Press, 2002. 87-89. -. "Rum Broadcast." Prism International 36.3 (Spring 1998): 40-41. -. "Sam." Ibid. 42-43. -. "(Spooky)". Anglophone Poetry and Poetics Outside the US and UK. Eds. Jenny Penberthy and Marjorie Perloff. Spec. issue of Sulfur 19.1, No. 44 (Spring 1999): 59. -. "Sport of the King of Kings." Capilano Review 2.29 (Fall 1999): 62-70. -. "Three for a Quarter, One for a Dime." Diaspora: The Cap Review Remix. Ed. Peter Hudson. Spec. issue of Capilano Review 2.33 (Winter 2001): N. pag. -. "The White Man Is a Thick-Skinned Pincushion." Diaspora 2 (1994): 17. -. "Worksong Revisitation Blues." Diaspora 2 (1994): 3.
REVIEWS -. "Doing Depestre." Rev. of A Rainbow for the Christian West by René Depestre. Mix 24.4 (Spring 1999): 42. -. "The Living Word." Rev. of Testifyin': Contemporary African Canadian Drama Volume One, ed. Djanet Sears. Canadian Literature 168 (Spring 2001): 165-67. -. Rev. of lettricity, by Kaie Kellough. Vancouver Rain Review of Books Jan.-Mar. 2005: n. pag. -. Rev. of Ratz Are Nice (PSP), by Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite. Georgia Straight 7-14 Sept. 2000: 70.
SHORT FICTION -. "The Blue Road: A Fairy Tale." So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy . Eds. Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004. 120-38. -. "Diamond." Islands West: Stories from the Coast. Ed. Keith Harrison. Lantzville, BC: Oolichan Books, 2001. 319-25. -. "Emancipation Day." CUTs \: On BC Politics. Eds. Margot Leigh Butler and Glen Lowry. Spec. issue of West Coast Line 36.2, No. 38 (Fall 2002): 48-49. -. From "From Portals: East Vancouver Oral Histories: Geraldine Diamond." Geist 13.55 (Winter 2004): 31-33. -. "The Non-Babylonians." Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience. Ed. Chandra Prasad. New York: Norton, 2006. 231-51. -. "The Non-Babylonians." Prism International 43:4 (Summer 2005): 50-63.
SOUND RECORDINGS -. "The Essential Charley Pride." Definitely Not the Opera. CBC Radio One. Summer 2001. [poetry] -. "Feather." [National Poetry Month Special.] CBC Radio One. Apr. 2000. [poetry] -. "Illegalese: Floodgate Dub." [Canada Day Special.] CBC Radio One. July 2000. [poetry] -. "Inlet Holler." Between the Covers. CBC Radio One. 27 Apr. 2000. [poetry] -. Interview with Sheryl McKay. North by Northwest. CBC Radio One. 6 Nov. 2004. -. "Interzone" and interview with Nora Young. Between the Covers. CBC Radio One. 29 Mar. 2005. -. "Northstyling." Definitely Not the Opera. CBC Radio One. Spring 2001. [poetry] -. "Ode to Sidney Poitier." Definitely Not the Opera. CBC Radio One. June 2001. [poetry] -. [On dreadlocks and cultural appropriation.] Definitely Not the Opera. CBC Radio One. 29 June 2002. [audio documentary] -. [On justice; part of the feature The Seven Heavenly Virtues by Nora Young.] Sounds Like Canada. CBC Radio One. 10 Mar. 2003. [commentary and poetry] -. With Trevor Thompson. "The Reinventing Wheel: Ouroboros Mix." In Performance Bond. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004. [poetry and music] -. With Jason de Couto. "The Reinventing Wheel: Rolling Wave Mix." Horizon Zero 8 (June 2003): http://www.horizonzero.ca/textsite/remix.php?is=8&art=0&file=7&tlang=0. [poetry and music]
TELEVISION
-. "Legba, Landed." Urban Rush. Shaw Cable Television. 24 July 2001. [poetry and interview] -. "Performance Bond." Five on Fifty. CBC Television. 18 Sept. 2002. [poetry with film and video montage, and interview]
ON COMPTON Banting, Sarah. "'The Lowdown Rundown on the Way It Went at That Time': Editorial Constructions of Meaning in Five Textualized Interviews of the Sound Heritage Project." Essays on Canadian Writing 83 (Fall 2004): 47-74. Brown, Allen. "Some Poetic Personae from B.C." Rev. of 49th Parallel Psalm, by Wayde Compton. Antigonish Review 123 (Autumn 2000): 53-62. Carey, Barbara. "We Are Who We Were." Rev. of Performance Bond, by Wayde Compton. Toronto Star 30 Jan. 2005: D8. Christy, Jim. Rev. of Performance Bond, by Wayde Compton. Georgia Straight 10-17 Feb. 2005: 44. Gunning, Margaret. "Glimpses of the 'Afro-Saxon' Experience in B.C.: Wayde Compton Belongs to Both Cultures and Neither." Vancouver Sun 23 Oct. 2004: D22. -. "Halfrican Look at Xanada." Rev. of 49th Parallel Psalm, by Wayde Compton. January Magazine Dec. 1999. 21 July 2004. http://www.januarymagazine.com/fiction/compton.html Hill, Lawrence. "History, Done Right." Rev. of Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature, ed. Wayde Compton. Vancouver Sun 23 Feb. 2002: E15. Horner, James. Rev. of 49th Parallel Psalm, by Wayde Compton. Canadian Content (November 1999). 21 July 2004. http://www.canadiancontent.ca/issues/1199books1.html Hudson, Peter. "The Past Names Nothing Anyplace: Wayde Compton, C.S. Giscombe, and the Poetics of Black British Columbia." Rev. of 49th Parallel Psalm, by Wayde Compton and Giscome Road , by C.S. Giscombe. Canadian Review of American Studies 30.2 (2000): 229-36. Johanson, Reg. Rev. of Performance Bond, by Wayde Compton. The Vancouver Rain Review of Books 3.3 (August- October 2005): 1. Lovejoy, Bess. "Invisible Literature: Wayde Compton Discovers the Unmapped Territory of Black British Columbia." Rev. of Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature, ed. Wayde Compton. The Stranger [Seattle] 9-16 May 2002. 21 July 2004. http://www.thestranger.com/2002-05- 09/books.html Manyoni, Julian. "Black -Like- to Who(m)?" Rev. of 49th Parallel Psalm, by Wayde Compton. Canadian Literature 182 (Fall 2004): 103-05. McGarragle, Sean. "Spoken Word DJ." Satellite [Vancouver] 17 Nov. 2004: 9. Mudede, Charles. "Compton Wants: New Poems on the Denied Desires." Rev. of Performance Bond, by Wayde Compton. Terminal City 2-9 Dec. 2004: 16. Pearce, Andrea. "The Changing Face of Cultural Identity in Wayde Compton's 49th Parallel Psalm : Being Black or Mulatto in British Columbia." Simon Fraser University English honours thesis. March 2003. [honours thesis] Vandervlist, Harry. "From Frisco to Xanada." Rev. of 49th Parallel Psalm, by Wayde Compton. FFWD Weekly 17-24 June 1999. 21 July 2004. http://www.ffwdweekly.com/Issues/1999/0617/book2.html
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