He is currently finishing a book called Fugitive Time: The Politics and Poetics of Black Experimental Writing, and beginning research on a project tentatively titled Phonographic Poetry considering the interplay of poetry and documentation in African American literature in the 20th and 21st centuries. Professor Reed’s poetry has been published in Callaloo (2012) and his scholarship appears in The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature (June 2011) and African American Review (forthcoming).