Lauri RameyLauri Ramey is Xiaoxiang Scholars Program Distinguished Professor at Hunan Normal University. Her previous publications include Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry (2010), The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962-1975 (2008), Black ritish Writing (with R. Victoria Arana, 2009), and a two-volume anthology set (with Aldon Lynn Nielsen) Every Goodbye Ain't Gone: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans (2006) and What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America (2015). Read More Read Less