Anthony Reed [https://as.vanderbilt.edu/english/bio/anthony-reed/] joins the podcast to discuss June Jordan's marvelous poem "In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr. [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47716/in-memoriam-martin-luther-king-jr]" Anthony is Professor of English and the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of Fine Arts at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Freedom Time: The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing [https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/10930/freedom-time](Johns Hopkins UP, 2014) and Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production [https://www.dukeupress.edu/soundworks] (Duke UP, 2021). With Vera Kutzinski, Anthony edited Langston Hughes in Context [https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/langston-hughes-in-context/B66C2DC223448F1080515549B873946C] (Cambridge UP, 2022).  During the episode, I make reference to Anthony's article, "The Erotics of Mourning in Recent Experimental Black Poetry [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00064246.2017.1264851]." We also listen to a recording [https://youtu.be/j7w9iCOk9-8] of Jordan herself reading today's poem. Finally, you can find the transcript of Jordan's visit to Allen Ginsberg's class, during which she discusses "vertical rhythm," here [https://allenginsberg.org/2022/06/76211/]. Please remember to follow, rate, and review the podcast if you like what you hear—and subscribe to the newsletter [https://kamranjavadizadeh.substack.com/] to stay up to date on our plans.