We're happy to make our venue available to Penguin Books for their celebration of Joshua Bennett's The Study of Human Life (2022). This combination book party/reading will celebrate a bold new work that weaves together reflections on such subjects as abolition, Malcolm X, Black ecological consciousness, and the promise of parenthood. 

In-person Attendance: Woodberry Poetry Room, Lamont Library, Room 330. Free and open to the public: simply tell the Lamont lobby staff that you are attending an event at the WPR. Some form of photo ID will be requested.

Online Attendance: Livestreaming available via the WPR YouTube Channel.

Dr. Joshua Bennett is the author of The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016)—which was a National Poetry Series selection and a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. He is also the author of Being Property Once Myself (Harvard University Press, 2020), Owed (Penguin, 2020), and Spoken Word: A Cultural History, which is forthcoming from Knopf. He has received fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. He is a Professor of English at Dartmouth College.