He has a PhD from Princeton University. He was selected for a Fulbright in Japan in 2009-2010. His publications include work on Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance, as well as contemporary American poetry. He is working on a book titled “The Stars Pulled Down: Technology and Poetics in the American New Poetry and the Harlem Renaissance.” During his Fulbright, Nardi discovered a new range of interests in Asia and Japan in particular. This paper is the first product of that new focus.