Keith Jones is the author of the poetry chapbooks, blue lake of tensile fire (Projective Industries), shorn ellipses (Morning House), the lucid upward ladder (Verse), Fugue Meadow (Ricochet Editions), and Surface to Air, Residuals of Basquiat (Pressed Wafer). His poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Flag + Void, Harvard Review, HERE, Let the Bucket Down, No Infinite, Positive Magnets, The Winter Anthology, 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.

Praise

“Keith Jones approaches the unaccountable in small measures that draw us down to a whole other kind of immensity . . . Jones keeps making sure we know that in the relay between surface and air, ground and song, artists make radical and precise mathematics, deep and unruly history. Like Basquiat, Jones is right there with the ones who do more than we can ask.”

— Fred Moten

“Keith Jones knows that to honor your ancestors you must also break their thrall”

— Dan Beachy-Quick

“With microtones, concision, and graven diction, Keith Jones weaves taught and gorgeous lines to build his concise and affecting lyricism.”

— Peter Gizzi

“Keith Jones both keeps time and eludes it in his own act of epic listening.”

— Joseph Donahue