Poet and professor Dr. Joshua Bennett will share original work from his first three collections of poems - The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016), Owed (Penguin, 2020) and The Study of Human Life (Penguin, 2022) - while also offering reflections on the art of storytelling, the power of the spoken word, and the radical history of Black poetic practice in the United States.
Moderated by Michael Mason, Associate Dean, Office of African American Affairs
Event Partners: 100 Black Men of Central Virginia | 100 Black Women of the Charlottesville Metropolitan Area | Black Faculty & Staff Employee Resource Group | Black Student Alliance | Carter G. Woodson Institute of African American and African Studies | Charlottesville City Schools | Office of African American Affairs