Marit J. MacArthur is a lecturer in the University Writing Program and faculty affiliate in the Performance Studies Graduate Group at the University of California, Davis. She has published or has forthcoming articles related to poetry performance in PMLA, the Journal of Cultural Analytics, Stanford’s Arcade Colloquy, The Paris Review Online, Jacket2, Sounding Out!, and Digital Humanities Quarterly.

Marit J. MacArthur

Howard Rambsy II, distinguished professor of literature at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, is the author of The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry (2011) and&nbsp;Bad Men: Creative Touchstones of Black Writers (2020).

Howard Rambsy II

Xiaoliu Wu is a PhD candidate in statistics at the University of California, Davis.

Xiaoliu Wu

Qin Ding received her PhD in statistics from the University of California, Davis, in June 2021.

Qin Ding

Lee M. Miller is professor of neurobiology and technical director of the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis. His research on the neural bases of auditory perception and speech recognition has been funded by the NIH, the NSF, the NEH, Google, Oculus, and the Department of Defense. He has co-authored a number of articles with Marit MacArthur.

Lee M. Miller

101 Black Women Poets in Mainly White and Mainly Black Rooms

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

Science &amp; Technology

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

Poetry

Qin Ding received her PhD in statistics from the University of California, Davis, in June 2021.