National Poetry Month: Celebrating Outspoken Speakers, Amena Brown and Dr. Joshua Bennett
Poetry is the language of the soul. They continue to imagine an alternative way of being and living for us all. And during this 15th anniversary of National Poetry Month and thereafter, we are grateful. We honor the voices and work of Outspoken speakers and poets, Amena Brown and Dr. Joshua Bennett. Together, their work has investigated what it means to be human and presented an all-encompassing vision for the future.
New Speaker Dr. Joshua Bennett’s Black Poetics as Re-imagination and Political Justice
Award-winning poet, interrogative scholar, and new Outspoken speaker, Dr. Joshua Bennett, finds inspiration in greats like Toni Morrison. From a spoken-word youth to slam champion of HBO’s hit poetry slam series, Brave New Voices, to Professor at Dartmouth College, Joshua has committed himself to the business of black writing as a means of radical re-imagination and repair.
