for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts and Humanities (2006); Honor Book Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (2011); CCCC Exemplar Award (2013); NCTE Advancement of People of Color Leadership Award (2014); the Assembly of the State of New York Proclamation for Career Achievement (2015); and the NCTE Distinguished Service Award (2018). Publications Gilyard's publications are substantial, including scholarly monographs and articles, autobiographical studies, a biography, textbooks, and creative works. His major publications include the following: Scholarly monographs Composition and Cornel West: Notes Toward a Deep Democracy (Southern Illinois University Press, 2008); Conversations in Cultural Rhetoric and Composition Studies (with Victor Taylor) (The Davies Group, Publishers, 2009); John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism (University of Georgia Press, 2010); Let's Flip the Script: An African American Discourse on Language, Literature, and Learning (Wayne State University Press, 1996); Liberation Memories: The Rhetoric and Poetics of John Oliver Killens (Wayne State University Press, 2003); True to the Language Game: African American Discourse, Cultural Politics, and Pedagogy (Routledge, 2011); Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence (Wayne State University Press, 1991) Creative Writing "The Next Great Old-School Conspiracy: A Novella" (Blind Beggar Press, 2016) "Wing of Memory: Poems" (Whirlwind Press, 2015) American 40 (Eclipse III, 1993) How I Figure: Poems (Whirlwind Press, 2003) Poemographies (Whirlwind Press, 2001) Textbooks and edited collections African American Literature, ed. with Anissa Wardi (Longman, 2004) Race, Rhetoric, and Composition, ed. (Heinemann, 1999) Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle . . . and Other Modern Verse, 2nd ed., ed. with Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Demetrice A. Worley (Scott Foresman 1995) Rhetoric and Ethnicity, ed. with Vorris Nunley (Heinemann, 2004) Rhetorical Choices: A Reader for Writers, 2nd ed., ed. with Deborah Holdstein and Chuck Schuster (Longman, 2007. [1st ed. 2004]) Spirit & Flame: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, ed. (Syracuse University Press, 1997) The Odyssey Reader, ed. with Nance Hahn and Faith Plvan (Kendall/Hunt, 1997) Biography Louise Thompson Patterson: A Life of Struggle for Justice. (Duke University Press, 2017) See also ECOT, Charter Schools, and Voucher Programs in Ohio Gilyard, Keith. Composition and Cornel West: Notes toward a Deep Democracy. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008. Gilyard, Keith. Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1991. McInturff, Adam. "Keith Gilyard." COMPbiblio: Leaders and Influences in Composition Theory and Practice. Allison