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Joshua Bennett


Born
The United States
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Genre
Poetry


Joshua Bennett received his Ph.D. in English from Princeton University. He also holds an M.A. in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Warwick, where he was a Marshall Scholar. In 2010, he delivered the Commencement Address at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with the distinctions of Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude.

Winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series, Dr. Bennett has received fellowships from the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, Cave Canem, the Josephine de Karman Fellowship Trust, and the Ford Foundation. His writing has been published or is forthcoming in Boston Review, Callaloo, The Kenyon Review, Poetry and elsewhere. He has recited his original work at venues such as the Sundance Fil ...more

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Owed
4.24 avg rating — 465 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions
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The Sobbing School
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The Study of Human Life
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Spoken Word: A Cultural His...
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The People Can Fly: America...
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Being Property Once Myself:...
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We (the People of the Unite...
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Demons of the blood moon
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God and Progress: Religion ...
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L'Amérique sera
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“Who can be alive today
& not study grief?”
― Joshua Bennett, The Sobbing School
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“Z is for zealotry: national pride like an infinite zipline, hyperdrive, the fastest way down.”
― Joshua Bennett, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
tags: african-americans, blacks, decline, national-pride, patriotism, poem, poetry, zealotry
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“God
bless the no, my story
is not for sale
the no, this body
belongs to me & the earth
alone, the see, the thing
about souls
is they by definition
cannot be owned”
― Joshua Bennett
tags: african-americans, blacks, blessings, god, life-stories, oppression, poem, poetry, souls, stories
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