2/15/2025 Zoom Reading & Workshop
Joshua Bennett
Joshua Bennett is a Professor of Literature and Distinguished Chair of the Humanities at MIT. He will be the Distinguished Poet for February at The Poetry Center. He will conduct a morning workshops and afternoon reading virtually. Workshops require registration. All readings are free and open to all.
He is the author of five books of poetry, criticism, and narrative nonfiction: Spoken Word: A Cultural History (Knopf, 2023); The Study of Human Life (Penguin, 2022), which won the Paterson Poetry Prize, was longlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize, and is currently being adapted for television in collaboration with Warner Brothers Studios; Owed (Penguin, 2020), a finalist for the New England Book Award; Being Property Once Myself (Harvard University Press, 2020), winner of the MLA’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize, and The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016), winner of the National Poetry Series and a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. he is the founding editor of Minor Notes, a Penguin Classics book series dedicated to minor poets within the black expressive tradition.
He lives in Massachusetts with his family.
Maria Mazziotti Gillan's newest poetry collection is When the Stars Were Still Visible (2021). Other recent publications are the poetry and photography collection, Paterson Light and Shadow, and the poetry collections What Blooms in Winter and The Girls in the Chartreuse Jackets, a pairing of her poems with her paintings.
Maria's artist website is MariaMazziottiGillan.com and her poetry website is MariaGillan.com.
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