What is ‘innovative’ after 9-11-01?: Reflections from the MSA 01 Conference

Michael Bibby is associate professor of English at Shippensburg University.  He is author of Hearts and Minds: Bodies, Poetry, and Resistance in the Vietnam Era (Rutgers University Press, 1996) and editor of The Vietnam War and Postmodernity (University of Massachusetts Press, 2000).  He has published articles on antiwar poetry, the poetry of the GI Resistance, poetry and political insurgency, and Michael Harper’s Debridement.  Currently he is working on a study of African American poetry and poetics from 1945-1955 and editing a collection on goth subcultures.