James Byrne (1)

Ko Ko Thett grew up in Burma. By the early 1990s, he was thoroughly poeticized and politicized at Rangoon Institute of Technology. In 1996 he published and clandestinely distributed two uncensored chapbooks on the campus. He left the country in 1997 following a brief detention for his role in the mehr anzeigen December 1996 student uprising in Rangoon. ko ko thett has written extensively for several Burma journals and leading papers in Finland. James Byrne is a poet and the editor of The Wolf magazine. Blood/Sugar is the title of his most recent collection of poems, and he received his MFA from New York University, where he was a Stein Fellow. He is also the co-editor of Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century, and anthology of British and Irish poets under 35, and edited The Wolf: A Decade. weniger anzeigen