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Joshua Bennett is a Professor and the Distinguished Chair in Humanities at MIT. He has authored five books including 'Sobbing School' (Penguin, 2016), which was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the NAACP Image Award. His work explores 20th and 21st-century African American literature, focusing on themes of environmental studies, poetry, and poetics. Bennett holds a Ph.D. in English from Princeton University and an M.A. in Theatre Performance Studies from the University of Warwick, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He has received several prestigious fellowships, including those from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His poetry and essays have appeared in notable publications like The Atlantic and The New Yorker. As a founding editor of Minor Notes, a series dedicated to minor poets within the black expressive tradition, Bennett aims to broaden the representation of diverse voices in literature. He teaches courses on poetry and creative writing, including 'Reading Poetry: Social Poetics' and 'Writing and Reading Poems: Nature Poetry.'