Keith D. LeonardKeith D. Leonard is the author of Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights (2006) and has published essays on innovation and nostalgia in contemporary Black poetry and jazz in African American literature. He has lso served as guest editor for special issues of Callaloo, MELUS, and Obsidian, each about poetry, politics, and activism. His current work characterizes an African American avant-garde constituted by the internal practices, institutional authority, and collective production of African American artist collectives. Read More Read Less