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Aldon Nielsen was the first winner of the Larry Neal Award for poetry and has to date published nine volumes of verse, including Heat Strings, Evacuation Routes, Stepping Razor, VEXT and Mixage. His poetry was selected by John Ashbery for the Best American Poems anthology and has also received two Gertrude Stein Awards for innovation. He has presented poetry readings at many venues, including the Folger Shakespeare Library, UC Berkeley, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Iowa, and the City Council Chambers of the District of Columbia. His first volume of literary criticism, Reading Race, won the SAMLA Studies Prize, a Myers Citation, and the Kayden Award for best book in the humanities. Subsequent works of scholarship include Writing between the Lines, C.L.R. James: A Critical Introduction, and Black Chant and Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation, which was the winner of the Josephine Miles Award. Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone, an anthology of experimental poetry by black American artists was coedited with Lauri Ramey. Nielsen’s edition of Don’t Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition, by Lorenzo Thomas, won an American Book Award.