Spoken Word: A Cultural History by Joshua Bennett

UNTITLED, WATTS, CALIFORNIA, Gordon Parks, 1967

Lillard goes Milwaukee as part of a 3-team deal with Jrue Holiday, Deandre Ayton, Toumani Camara, a 2029 unprotected MIL 1st, and unprotected MIL swap rights in 2028 and 2030 to Blazers. Phoenix lands Jusuf Nurkic, Grayson Allen, Nassir Little and Keon Johnson.

Join MIT Professor and award-winning author @sirjoshbennett as he shares selections from his latest books while offering reflections on the craft of storytelling. 9/29 6-7:30pm. Seating is limited and pre-registration is strongly encouraged. hubs.la/Q0238bg40

Good friends, join me today at noon EST for a reading from my new book #TheCultureTrap and a critical discussion with my colleague Dr. Joshua Bennett hosted by Harvard's Hutchins Center!

Introducing the Black Teacher Archive, an open-access digital portal that opens a new lens on the history of education, on Black history, and on American history.

MINOR NOTES, VOLUME 1 edited & introduction by Dr. Joshua Bennett & Jesse McCarthy, foreword by Tracy K. Smith, and read by Joshua Bennett, Jesse McCarthy, Tracy K. Smith & Full Cast: penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/702769/mi…

It’s publication day for the 9th title in Bloomsbury Books UK’ poetry list, the UK edition of OWED by Dr. Joshua Bennett ✨ “A rhapsodic, rigorous poetry collection, which pays homage to everyday Black experience in the U.S.” ~ The New Yorker

Amazing to see two ⁦Bloomsbury Books UK⁩ titles on the ⁦The Telegraph⁩’s Best Poetry Books of 2023 list! Huge congrats to ⁦Amy Acre⁩ for her debut MOTHERSONG, and ⁦Dr. Joshua Bennett⁩ for OWED, published only 3 weeks ago 💫✨💫 telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-…

Whiting grantees Catherine Lacey, colson whitehead, Victor LaValle, Ben Goldfarb, @safiyasinclair, Ilyon Woo, Patricia Evangelista, and Dr. Joshua Bennett are on the New York Times Books list of 100 notable books of 2023! buff.ly/47GHanR

About to start this. Looks v interesting.

Dig it, Places Journal has published a series of "poems that can be read as maps," curated by G.E. Patterson and featuring poetry by Dr. Joshua Bennett, aditimachado, Chris Martin, Naomi Shihab Nye, and other terrific writers, see here: placesjournal.org/series/poems-a…

7/31: Join us and Hutchins Center at The Embrace for a public conversation about art & the politics of public memory w/ Dr. Joshua Bennett & Imani Perry hosted by Brandon M. Terry. In collab w/ Embrace Boston and Friends of the Public Garden. FREE and open to all! RSVP: un-monument.splashthat.com

How does poetry capture the magic of being alive? On this episode of Chalk Radio, LIT@MIT Prof. Dr. Joshua Bennett finds poetic inspiration everywhere: family, musicians, biologists — even Star Trek characters. 🎙️ Listen now: bit.ly/3YrTQxk

Check out this excellent profile of MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences LIT@MIT Prof. Dr. Joshua Bennett, a 2023 MIT Jameel World Education Lab Education Innovation grant recipient. For Bennett's project, he worked with a cohort of high school students to combine archival #research w/ #art making. bit.ly/3WHGOts

Audiobook Love: on a recent 3 hr bike ride through the woods of south Wales, I revisited this beauty. Dr. Joshua Bennett’s poems feel like mini memoirs on fire. This is a book of fearlessness. Big up!

"Your journey was a map of the modern mind’s uncountable transformations" From "Florida" by @sirjoshbennett, TYR's Poem of the Week. yalereview.org/article/joshua…