David Grundy
Aug 8th - 21st

David Grundy is a poet and scholar. He is the author of A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019), Present Continuous (Pamenar Press, 2022), and A True Account (The 87 Press, 2023), and co-editor, with Lauri Scheyer, of Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton (Wesleyan University Press, 2023). Never by Itself Alone: Queer Poetry in Boston and San Francisco, 1943–Present is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2024, and he is currently working on a project on free jazz entitled Survival Music. He co-runs the small press Materials/Materialien.

While in residence, Grundy will further develop several ongoing projects including a poetry manuscript and a scholarly book on free jazz, Black aesthetic, and political avant-gardes.