Fred Moten is the Helen L. Bevington Professor of Modern Poetry at Duke University. He is author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press, 2003), Hughson's Tavern (Leon Works, 2008), B. Jenkins (Duke University Press, 2010), and two forthcoming books: The Feel Trio (Letter Machine Editions, 2013) and consent not to be a single being (Duke University Press).