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On April 29, 2019, the English Department held a panel discussion featuring:

Jackie Wang
Jackie Wang is s a student of the dream state, black studies scholar, prison abolitionist, poet, filmmaker, performer, trauma monster, and PhD candidate at Harvard University in African and African American Studies. She is the author of Carceral Capitalism (Semiotexte / MIT Press), a number of punk zines including On Being Hard Femme, and a collection of dream poems titled Tiny Spelunker of the Oneiro-Womb (Capricious). In her most recent work she has been researching the bail bonds industry and the history of risk assessment in the criminal legal system. She is currently a fellow at the Film Study Center, the Warren Center and the Weatherhead Center. 

Andrea Brady
Andrea Brady's books of poetry include The Strong Room (Crater, 2016), Dompteuse (Book Thug, 2014), Cut from the Rushes (Reality Street, 2013), Mutability: Scripts for Infancy (Seagull, 2012), and Wildfire: A Verse Essay on Obscurity and Illumination (Krupskaya, 2010). She is at Queen Mary University of London, where she runs the  and the .  She is also co-publisher of .  In 2018-19 she is a fellow at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina, where she is finishing a book on Poetry and Bondage.

Phuong Vuong
Phuong Vuong is an MFA candidate at ²ÊÃñ±¦µä and the winner of the 2019 Cookson Experimental Essay Prize.