<h4>Chris Chen is an Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz.</h4>

Chris Chen

<h4>Tim Kreiner is working on a book of literary history, <i class="">The Long Downturn and Its Discontents: Poetry, Culture Wars, and the New Left</i>, about the ins and outs of poetry, social movements, and political economy. He is currently a Lecturer in English at Yale University.</h4>

Tim Kreiner

Free Speech, Minstrelsy, and the Avant-Garde

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

Chris Chen is an Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Chris Chen

Articles

Free Speech, Minstrelsy, and the Avant-Garde