Cantab Feature for Wednesday, November 11, 2015: Joshua Bennett

Yonkers poet and Callaloo fellow Joshua Bennett.

Yonkers poet and Callaloo fellow Joshua Bennett.

Joshua Bennett hails from Yonkers, NY. He is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at Princeton University, and has received fellowships from the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at MIT, the Josephine de Karman Fellowship Trust, and the Ford Foundation. Winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series, his poems have been published or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Callaloo, the Kenyon Review, New England Review, Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory and elsewhere.

Joshua has recited his original work at venues such as The Sundance Film Festival, The NAACP Image Awards, and President Obama’s Evening of Poetry and Music at The White House. Penguin Books will publish his first collection of poems, The Sobbing School, in 2016. He is also the founding editor of Kinfolks: a journal of black expression.

This show in our weekly Wednesday series takes place at the Cantab Lounge, 738 Massachusetts Ave. in Cambridge. Doors for the show open at 7:15. The open mic begins at 8:00 and the feature performs at approximately 10:00. An open poetry slam in the 8×8 series will follow. The show is 18+ (ID required) and the cover charge is $3.