Keith Jones (he/him) is the author of Echo’s Errand and the chapbooks blue lake of tensile fire; shorn ellipses; the lucid upward ladder; Fugue Meadow; and Surface to Air, Residuals of Basquiat. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Barrow Street, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Flag + Void, Harvard Review, SX Salon, Transition, Verse, and elsewhere. He teaches in the Africana Studies Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston and is the current poet-in-residence at the New England Conservatory.