Dr. Joshua Bennett

Glad to have a new poem featured in this week’s @NewYorker

Beauty and decay, always passengers
on the same train.

—Sasha Goodwin

A poem for the first day of Spring: “Sorrow is Not My Name” by Ross Gay

Thanks to the @parisreview for featuring Tracy K. Smith’s foreword from Minor Notes! The anthology arrives on April 11th

theparisreview.org/blog/2023/03/1…

Any time we come together, any time we can come together to celebrate the lives of children, the precious life of Black children, I think to myself […] This is how we should begin to build another way, another kind of humankind, a really new nation.

—June Jordan