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contributors black took collective was cofounded in 1999 by Duriel E. Harris, Dawn Lundy Martin, and Ronaldo V. Wilson at Cave Canem, a retreat for African American Poets. They are a group of Black post-theorists who perform and write in hybrid experimental forms, embracing radical poetics and cutting-edge critical theory about race, gender, and sexuality. maria damon teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry and Postliterary America: From Bagel Shop Jazz to Micropoetries, and coeditor (with Ira Livingston) of Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader. andrew epstein is an associate professor at Florida State University. He is the author of Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American Poetry, and his essays have recently appeared in Contemporary Literature, Wallace Stevens Journal, Jacket 2, and other journals. ross hair is a lecturer in the School of American Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK, and the author of Ronald Johnson’s Modernist Collage Poetry. duriel e. harris is the author of Drag, Amnesiac: Poems, and Speleology, a collaboration with video artist Scott Rankin. Current projects include the amnesiac media art project and “Thingification,” a solo play in one act. She is an associate professor of English and teaches creative writing, literature, and poetics at Illinois State University. daniel kane is reader in English and American literature at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England. His publications include We Saw the Light: Conversations between the New American Cinema and Poetry and All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s. dawn lundy martin is the author of Discipline, A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering, and two chapbooks, Candy and The Mourning Hour. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. peter middleton is the author of Distant Reading, as well as other books and essays on poetry and modern literature, and is currently finishing a book on 258 | Contributors American poetry and science in the Cold War. His poetry is collected in Aftermath . He is a professor of English at the University of Southampton, UK. linda russo is the author of Mirth, a book of poems. Her essays on contemporary American poets have appeared in Don’t Ever Get Famous: Essays on New York Writing after the New York School, in Jacket magazine, and as the preface to Joanne Kyger’s About Now: Collected Poems. She teaches at Washington State University. lytle shaw is associate professor of English at New York University. His books include Cable Factory 20, Frank O’Hara: The Poetics of Coterie, and the forthcoming Fieldworks: From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics. ann vickery is a senior lecturer in Literary Studies at Deakin University. She is the author of Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language Writing, Stressing the Modern: Cultural Politics in Australian Women’s Poetry and coauthor with Maryanne Dever and Sally Newman of The Intimate Archive: Journeys through Private Papers. She also coedited Manifesting Australian Literary Feminisms: Nexus and Faultlines with Margaret Henderson. barrett watten is coauthor of The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography, author of The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics, and coeditor of Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement and A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field, 1982–1998. His volumes of poetry include Frame (1971–1990), Bad History, and Progress/Under Erasure. He teaches at Wayne State University. ronaldo v. wilson is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man and Poems of the Black Object. Wilson is a visiting assistant professor of poetry, fiction, and literature in the Literature Department of the University of California, Santa Cruz. His latest book is Farther Traveler: Poetry, Prose, Other. ...