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Poet Joshua Bennett: Feb. 19 "Well-Being" Event
Enjoy a special presentation on Thursday, February 19, at 8:10 AM in Schenck Auditorium, featuring Joshua Bennett. Bennett is being presented at D-E as part of the School's "Road to Well-Being" Speaker Series. An award-winning poet and spoken word artist, Bennett will read from his collection “Algorithm & Blues” and other selections. Later that same day, he will also be reading to D-E Upper School students. His readings, including a forthcoming manuscript, will provide inspiring, intriguing topics for family conversation at home!
Joshua Bennett hails from Yonkers, NY. He is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at Princeton University. Winner of the 2014 Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize, his poems have been published or are forthcoming in Anti-, Callaloo, Women & performance: a journal of feminist theory and elsewhere. Bennett has recited his original work at events such as the Sundance Film Festival, the NAACP Image Awards, and President Obama’s Evening of Poetry and Music at The White House. He is also the founding editor of Kinfolks: a journal of black expression.
This event is FREE and open to all D-E parents and guardians, alumni, and friends.
Questions about the "Road to Well-Being" Speaker Series can be Emailed to: silvek@d-e.org.
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