Antonio Sergio Bessa is the Director of Curatorial and Educational Programs at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, and a scholar of concrete poetry. His essays have been published in several anthologies, including Öyvind Fahlström (Ord & Bild, 1998), Architectures of Poetry (Rodopi, 2004), The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound (University of Chicago Press, 2009), Poetry Goes Visual (Weserburg Museum, 2012), and Specters of Artaud (Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2012). He is the author of Öyvind Fahlström: The Art of Writing (Northwestern University Press, 2009), and editor of Novas: Selected Writings of Haroldo de Campos (Northwestern University Press, 2007) and Mary Ellen Solt: Toward a Theory of Concrete Poetry (OEI, 2010).