Micah Bateman is a researcher, essayist, and poet from rural East Texas. His research focuses on American cultural heritage from small community archives to big social-media platforms. He is at work on a grant from the Institute of Museum & Library Services to investigate strategic practices and partnerships for coordinating inclusive community memory in rural communities, and his book project, Lyric Publics: The Uses of Poetry in American Social-Media Campaigns, charts the circulations of poets and poems on social-media platforms as political response in the Trump era.