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Episode 34: Dr. Joshua Bennett

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Rachel Zucker speaks with poet, performer, educator and scholar Dr. Joshua Bennett about writing a poem for a friend’s wedding, the relationship between performance and page, growing up in South Yonkers and attending a largely white private school, the birth of Black Studies, creating alternative gathering and learning spaces, infiltrating established institutions, the June Jordan fellowship at Columbia’s Center for Justice, the writers and thinkers who inspire Bennett, and how to write about family and living people with respect and honesty.

EXTRA RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 34

Books by Joshua Bennett

The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016)

Videos of Joshua

Spoken Wordsmith: Joshua Bennett, via Reebok

16 Bars for Kendrick Lamar, via The Strivers Row

Performing at the White House Poetry Jam

Other Books/Writers Mentioned in the Episode

Achille Mbembe’s Critique of Black Reason (Duke University Press, 2017)

Jesmyn Ward’s “Salvage the Bones” (Bloomsbury, 2012)

Patricia Smith’s Incendiary Art (Triquarterly, 2017)

June Jordan’s Civil Wars (Touchstone, 1995)

Cornel West’s Race Matters (Vintage, 1994)

Theodor Adorno

Richard Wright

Toni Morrison

Zora Neale Hurston

James Baldwin

Jupiter Hammon

George Jackson

Lucille Clifton

Aja Mone

Carlos Andres Gomez

Elizabeth Acevedo

Tyehimba Jess

Phillis Wheatley

Ed Roberson

Dr. Jamall Calloway

Jason Craige Harris

Other Relevant Links

Joshua’s dissertation: “Being Property Once Myself: In Pursuit of the Animal in 20th Century African American Literature”

Joshua interviewed in Dissent Magazine

Kendrick Lamar

Sam Cook

June Jordan Fellowship at the Center for Justice at Columbia University

The Strivers Row

Michael J. Dumas

Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival

  continue reading

103 episodes

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Why? Inactive feed status. Our servers were unable to retrieve a valid podcast feed for a sustained period.

What now? You might be able to find a more up-to-date version using the search function. This series will no longer be checked for updates. If you believe this to be in error, please check if the publisher's feed link below is valid and contact support to request the feed be restored or if you have any other concerns about this.

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Rachel Zucker speaks with poet, performer, educator and scholar Dr. Joshua Bennett about writing a poem for a friend’s wedding, the relationship between performance and page, growing up in South Yonkers and attending a largely white private school, the birth of Black Studies, creating alternative gathering and learning spaces, infiltrating established institutions, the June Jordan fellowship at Columbia’s Center for Justice, the writers and thinkers who inspire Bennett, and how to write about family and living people with respect and honesty.

EXTRA RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 34

Books by Joshua Bennett

The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016)

Videos of Joshua

Spoken Wordsmith: Joshua Bennett, via Reebok

16 Bars for Kendrick Lamar, via The Strivers Row

Performing at the White House Poetry Jam

Other Books/Writers Mentioned in the Episode

Achille Mbembe’s Critique of Black Reason (Duke University Press, 2017)

Jesmyn Ward’s “Salvage the Bones” (Bloomsbury, 2012)

Patricia Smith’s Incendiary Art (Triquarterly, 2017)

June Jordan’s Civil Wars (Touchstone, 1995)

Cornel West’s Race Matters (Vintage, 1994)

Theodor Adorno

Richard Wright

Toni Morrison

Zora Neale Hurston

James Baldwin

Jupiter Hammon

George Jackson

Lucille Clifton

Aja Mone

Carlos Andres Gomez

Elizabeth Acevedo

Tyehimba Jess

Phillis Wheatley

Ed Roberson

Dr. Jamall Calloway

Jason Craige Harris

Other Relevant Links

Joshua’s dissertation: “Being Property Once Myself: In Pursuit of the Animal in 20th Century African American Literature”

Joshua interviewed in Dissent Magazine

Kendrick Lamar

Sam Cook

June Jordan Fellowship at the Center for Justice at Columbia University

The Strivers Row

Michael J. Dumas

Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival

  continue reading

103 episodes

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