Adalaide Morris, Professor Emerita at the University of Iowa, writes on the expanded field of modern and contemporary poetics. She is the author of How to Live / What to Do: H.D.’s Cultural Poetics and has published an edited collection of essays, Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies, and a co-edited collection, New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories. Recent essays include “Forensic Listening: NourbeSe Philip’s Zong and Caroline Bergvall’s Drift,” in Dibur; “Hellocasting the Holocaust: Appropriative Poetry as an Ethical Practice,” in The Fate of Difficulty in the Poetry of Our Time; and “’Miraculous Constellations’: Countermapping and the Avant-Garde” in Poesis and Precarity. She is writing on race and politics in Nathaniel Mackey’s serial novel From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate. With Alan Golding and Lynn Keller, she edits the University of Iowa Contemporary North American Poetry Series.