Joel Bettridge is the author of four books of poetry: LIGATURES (Dos Madres Press, 2019), THE PUBLIC LIFE OF CHEMISTRY (The Cultural Society, 2018), PRESOCRATIC BLUES (Chax Press, 2009), and THAT ABRUPT HERE (The Cultural Society, 2007). He is also the author of the two critical studies Avant-Garde Pieties: Aesthetics, Race, and the Renewal of Innovative Poetics (Routledge, 2018) and Reading as Belief: Language Writing, Poetics, Faith (Palgrave, 2009). He co-edited, with Eric Selinger, Ronald Johnson: Life and Works (The National Poetry Foundation, 2008). He is Professor of English at Portland State University.