Dr. Joshua Bennett is the author of The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016), a National Poetry Series selection. He holds a Ph.D. in English from Princeton University, and an M.A. in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Warwick, where he was a Marshall Scholar. Dr. Bennett has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, Cave Canem, and the Ford Foundation. His writing has been published or is forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Boston Review, The New York Times, Poetry and elsewhere. He is currently a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University.
Poetry
July/Aug 2019
Trash
All the men I loved were dead -beats by birthright or so the legend went. The ledger said three out of every four of us was destined for a cell […]
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2017
Praise Song for the Table in the Cafeteria Where All the Black Boys Sat Together during A Block, Laughing Too Loudly
What is this nonpower at the heart of power? —Jacques Derrida Thomas was a riot. By which I mean funnyto the point you thought he practiced the sameset of […]
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2017
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As you are both Malcolm’s shadow & the black unknownhe died defending, I praise your untold potential, the possibleworlds you hold within your body’sbladed frame. I love how you stand […]
Joshua Bennett
Dr. Joshua Bennett is the author of The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016), a National Poetry Series selection. He holds a PhD in English from Princeton University, and an MA in […]