Gerónimo Sarmiento Cruz teaches and researches poetry and poetics, US minority literature, and hemispheric poetry.

His current book project, Anational Poetics, reads US ethnic minority poetry from the last fifty years to chart the articulation of communities unfolding beyond the category of the nation. Foregrounding the dominant role that the idea of the nation holds in the contemporary political and literary landscape, this project proposes the concept of the anational as a lens to discern divergent forms of sociality that organize themselves independently from the nation. The book argues for a new approach to the writings of a wide range of poets (including Amiri Baraka, Gloria Anzaldúa, Jennifer Tamayo, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Myung Mi Kim, Simon J. Ortiz, Craig Santos Perez, Fred Moten, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs) who are more often discussed under the rubric of multiculturalism, which emphasizes diversity and inclusion and ultimately remains bound by nationalist frameworks of assimilation. By contrast, the readings offered show how these poets participate in and dissent from an extended civil rights compromise that unsettles multiculturalism by questioning their belongingness to the US.