Joshua Bennett on the Spoken Word Tradition

“Say it. / That every day is a toast / to living. An ode to the way we / made resilience an art…” In this lecture for the Chautauqua Institution, Joshua Bennett reads a selection of his poems and meditates on his father’s life and the history of the spoken word tradition. Bennett speaks about his latest poetry collection, Owed (Penguin Poets, 2020), in an installment of Ten Questions.

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Date:
  • September 2, 2020
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