Joshua Bennett is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at Princeton University, and has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia University, the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference, and the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop. Selected by Eugene Gloria as a winner of the National Poetry Series, The Sobbing School (Penguin) is Bennett’s mesmerizing debut collection of poetry, presents songs for the living and the dead that destabilize and de-familiarize representations of black history and contemporary black experience.
Winner of the National Poetry Series, The Sobbing School is Joshua Bennett’s mesmerizing debut collection of poetry, in which he presents songs for the living and the dead that destabilize and de-familiarize representations of black history and contemporary black experience.