
Dr. Joshua Bennett
@sirjoshbennett
Writer. Professor of Literature at @MIT. Author of Being Property Once Myself, Owed, & The Study of Human Life. @PenguinBooks @Harvard_Press
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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!



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/miโฆ


Itโs publication day for the 9th title in Bloomsbury Books UKโ poetry list, the UK edition of OWED by Dr. Joshua Bennett โจ โA rhapsodic, rigorous poetry collection, which pays homage to everyday Black experience in the U.S.โ ~ The New Yorker

Amazing to see two โฆBloomsbury Books UKโฉ titles on the โฆThe Telegraphโฉโs Best Poetry Books of 2023 list! Huge congrats to โฆAmy Acreโฉ for her debut MOTHERSONG, and โฆDr. Joshua Bennettโฉ for OWED, published only 3 weeks ago ๐ซโจ๐ซ telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-โฆ

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


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-aโฆ

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



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 Bennettโs poems feel like mini memoirs on fire. This is a book of fearlessness. Big up!

