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  • Contributors

J. Edward Chamberlin is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. His books include Come Back To Me My Language: Poetry and the West Indies (1993); If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? Finding Common Ground (2003); and The Banker and the Blackfoot: An Untold Story of Friendship, Trust and Broken Promises (2018). He is an Officer of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Lorna Goodison is the Poet Laureate of Jamaica and a major figure in world literature. She has won many awards for her work, most recently the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for Poetry from Yale University (2018). Her Collected Poems was published in 2017, followed by Redemption Ground: Essays and Adventures (2019). She has also written From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her People (2007), three collections of short stories, and ten books of poetry. She is Professor Emerita at the University of Michigan.

Tsitsi Jaji is Associate Professor of English and African and African American Studies at Duke University. She holds a PhD in comparative literature from Cornell University. She is the author of Africa in Stereo: Music, Modernism, and Pan-African Solidarity (2013) and two poetry collections, Beating the Graves (2017) and Mother Tongues (2019), which received the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Prize.

Josephine Nock-Hee Park is Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Apparitions of Asia: Modernist Form and Asian American Poetics (2008) and Cold War Friendships: Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American Literature (2016), and she is the co-editor, with Paul Stasi, of Ezra Pound in the Present: Essays on Pound's Contemporaneity (2016).

Urayoán Noel is Associate Professor of English and Spanish at New York University. His books include In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (2014), winner of the LASA Latino Studies Book Award; the poetry collection Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (2015); and Architecture of Dispersed Life (2018), a bilingual edition of the poetry of Pablo de Rokha, which was shortlisted for the National Translation Award.

Jahan Ramazani is University Professor and Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. His most recent books are the Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry (2017), Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres (2013), and A Transnational Poetics (2009), winner of the ACLA's Harry Levin Prize. His book Poetry in a Global Age is forthcoming in 2020. [End Page 703]

Vidyan Ravinthiran is Associate Professor at Harvard University and the author of Elizabeth Bishop's Prosaic (2015), winner of the University English Prize and the Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism. He has written two books of verse. The Million-Petalled Flower of Being Here (2019) won a Northern Writers Award and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and was shortlisted for both the Forward and the T. S. Eliot Prize.

Evie Shockley is Professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author of Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry (2011) and three books of poetry, most recently semiautomatic, winner of the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Pulitzer Prize.

Nathan Suhr-Sytsma is Associate Professor of English at Emory University. His first book, Poetry, Print, and the Making of Postcolonial Literature, was published in 2017. He is now at work on a book about twenty-first-century African poetry. His essays appear in Jacket2 and the Los Angeles Review of Books as well as scholarly publications. [End Page 704]

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