Grant Matthew Jenkins is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tulsa, USA. His teaching and research specialties include twentieth and twenty-first century American literature, Experimental Poetry and Poetics, Ethnic American literatures, Creative Writing (Poetry), Ethical and Critical Theory, and Composition and Rhetorical Studies. He is the author of Poetic Obligation: Ethics in Experimental American Poetry after 1945 (2008) and has published scholarly essays on poetry in Paideuma, African American Review, Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, Journal of American Studies, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Sagetrieb: Journal of the Objectivist Tradition, and in Poetry and Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary.