Alan Golding teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Louisville, and directs the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900. He is the author of From Outlaw to Classic: Canons in American Poetry, and of numerous essays on modernist and contemporary poetry and literary institutions.  Current projects include Writing Into the Future: New American Poetries from The Dial To the Digital, under contract with the University of Alabama Press, and “Isn’t the Avant-Garde Always Pedagogical,” a book on experimental poetics and / as pedagogy. With Lynn Keller and Dee Morris, he co-edits the University of Iowa Contemporary North American Poetry Series.