Howard Rambsy II is Professor of English Literature at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and the author of Bad Men: Creative Touchstones of Black Writers (UVA Press, 2020) and The Black Art...view moreHoward Rambsy II is Professor of English Literature at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and the author of Bad Men: Creative Touchstones of Black Writers (UVA Press, 2020) and The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 2011).view less