Joshua Bennett, author portrait
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Joshua Bennett

Dr. Joshua Bennett is the author of The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016), which was a National Poetry Series selection and a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. He is also the author of Being Property Once Myself (Harvard University Press, 2020), Owed (Penguin, 2020), The Study of Human Life (Penguin, 2022), and Spoken Word: A Cultural History (Knopf, 2023). He has received fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. He is a Professor of Literature and Distinguished Chair of the Humanities at MIT.
We (the People of the United States)
Spoken Word
The Study of Human Life
Owed
The Sobbing School

Wed Mar 18 | 07:00 PM
Grolier Poetry Bookshop
6 Plympton Street
Cambridge, Ma 02138
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Books

We (the People of the United States)
Spoken Word
The Study of Human Life
Owed
The Sobbing School

Events

Wed Mar 18 | 07:00 PM
Grolier Poetry Bookshop
6 Plympton Street
Cambridge, Ma 02138
Google Map

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