21 | 19: Contemporary Poets in the Nineteenth-Century Archive

By Fred Moten

Foreword by preeminent poet and scholar Fred Moten, with a group of influential contributors, including Dan Beachy-Quick, Stefania Heim, and Brian Teare

There are more than 1,000 writing BFA and MFA programs in the United States, boasting thousands of students and readers who will teach and buy this book

This is one of the first collections to intentionally bridge the gap between the massive poetry community and academics, two major markets of readers and book buyers

The NEA reported in 2018 that roughly 28 million people read poetry in the last year; this collection positions poets as thought leaders at a critical time in the rise of poetry readership

• Language: English
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Release date: Aug 13, 2019
• ISBN: 9781571319869

Fred Moten

Fred Moten examines black studies through the lenses of performance, poetry, and critical theory. He is the author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, Hughson's Tavern, The Feel Trio, and consent not to be a single being, among others. His most recent book, The Little Edges, was published by Wesleyan in December 2015, and The Feel Trio was shortlisted for the 2014 National Book Award. His essays and poems have appeared in publications like the South Atlantic Quarterly, Experimental Sound and Radio, and Hambone, as well as several anthologies and collections. He has spoken and performed for audiences around the globe. Moten is currently an English professor at University of California, Riverside, and teaches at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. He is also a member of the writing faculty at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.