B JenkinsFred Moten The fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred Moten, B Jenkins is named after the poets mother, who passed away in 2000. It is both an elegy and an inquiry into many of the themes that Moten has explored throughout his career: language, music, performance, improvisation, and the black radical aesthetic and political tradition. In Motens verse, the arts, scholarship, and activism intertwine. Cadences echo from