Conversation and Q&A with Joshua Bennett, “one of the most impressive voices in poetry today” (Dissent).

Bennett is the author of a major new work, We (The People of The United States) (2026), a book-length poem about America, past, present and future. His book addresses an astonishing range of subjects, including The Beach Boys, Gwendolyn Brooks, the invention of the typewriter, Zora Neale Hurston, Sun Ra, life on Mars, Robert Frost, experimental physics, and The Jackson 5.

Booklist called it, “An essential addition to the American poetic canon.”

4:30 p.m. Tuesday, September 29
University at Albany
Multi-Purpose Room
1400 Washington Avenue, Albany NY 12222
Free and open to the public
https://www.nyswritersinstitute.org/joshuabennett

Bennett’s previous books of poetry, criticism and narrative nonfiction include Being Property Once Myself (2020), Owed (2020), The Study of Human Life (2022), and Spoken Word: A Cultural History (2023). He serves as professor of literature and Distinguished Chair of the Humanities at MIT.

Cosponsored by the University at Albany's Great Dane Dialogue series in honor of America's 250th Celebration