Guggenheim Fellowship • Whiting Award in Poetry and Non Fiction • Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows at Harvard University • Winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series • Recipient of a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts • Founder and Director of the June Jordan Fellowship • Finalist for an NAACP Image Award for Poetry • Recipient of a Josephine de Karman Fellowship • Winner of the Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize • Marshall Scholar • Featured Poet at President Obama's Evening of Poetry and Music at the White House

Joshua Bennett’s astounding, dolorous, rejoicing voice is indispensable.

— Tracy K. Smith

ONE OF THE BRIGHTEST INTELLECTUAL AND POLITICAL THINKERS OF A NEW GENERATION.

—JESSE MCCARTHY

Watching Joshua Bennett perform his poetry is something like watching a Baptist preacher deliver a Sunday sermon. Once on stage, his face grows serious, his hands move emphatically and he plays with volume and silence in his delivery, using both to drive the audience to a rousing “Amen.”—Tara Jefferson, Anisfield Book Awards

With their joy, pain, and fierce descriptions of Black life in America, Bennett’s poems are more necessary than ever.

—Publishers Weekly

Bennett’s devotionals are demands, too…[he] conjures a spirit of kinship that, illuminated by redolent imagery, borders on mythic, and boldly stakes claim to “some living, future / English, & everyone in it / is immortal.”

—Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker

BENNETT…HAS ESTABLISHED HIMSELF AS AN INTENSELY PATIENT AND DELIBERATE WRITER CAPABLE OF UPENDING GENRE AS SEAMLESSLY AS HE UPENDS OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD.

—RONNIE K. STEPHENS