The Sobbing School

By Joshua Bennett

The debut collection from a 2021 Whiting Award and Guggenheim Fellow recipient whose “astounding, dolorous, rejoicing voice is indispensable” (Tracy K. Smith)   The Sobbing School, Joshua Bennett’s...

The Believer Issue 134

By Erika Meitner, Janice Lee, Evan Allgood, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute The Beverly Rogers, May Ziade, Sasha Von Oldershausen, Bonnie Johnson, Joshua Bennett, Donald Berger, Mark Wunderlich, Katharine Halls, Ahmed Naji

God and Progress

By Joshua Bennett

Owed

By Joshua Bennett

From a 2021 Whiting Award and Guggenheim Fellow recipient, a “rhapsodic, rigorous poetry collection, which pays homage to everyday Black experience in the U.S.” (The New Yorker)Gregory Pardlo descr...

The Study of Human Life

By Joshua Bennett

Winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize, and longlisted for the Griffin Prize and the Massachusetts Book AwardAn acclaimed poet further extends his range into the realm of speculative fiction, while ad...

Minor Notes, Volume 1

By Tracy K. Smith, Jesse Mccarthy, Georgia Douglas Johnson, George Moses Horton, Joshua Bennett, Fenton Johnson, Joshua Bennett, (Poet), Edited With An Introduction By Joshua Bennett, Jesse McCarthy; Foreword By Tracy K. Smith

The first volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black poets to paint a more robust picture of our national past, and of the Black literary imagination, with a foreword b...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

By Joshua Bennett, Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

By Joshua Bennett, Frederick Douglass

Spoken Word

By Joshua Bennett

Spoken Word

By Joshua Bennett

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A “rich hybrid of memoir and history” (The New Yorker) of the literary art form that has transformed the cultural landscape, by one of its influential pr...