Reed Bye is a contemplative scholar and longtime professor at Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. His poetry, like his mind, is radiant and centripetal. His previous books include Some Magic at the Dump, Erstwhile Charms, Border Theme, Heart's Bestiary, Passing Freaks and Graces, Catching On, and Join the Planets: New and Selected Poems. He has released two original CDs, Long Way Around (Farfalla, McMillan & Parrish, 2005) and Broke Even (Fast Speaking Music, 2013). Reed has mentored countless poets of the Front Range for decades. His lifelong study and instruction of classical modernism is unique for its combination of thorough scholarship and experimental practice. Reed's work is characterized by persistent compassion.