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  • The People Can Fly: American Promise, Black Prodigies, and the Greatest Miracle of All Time

    The People Can Fly: American Promise, Black Prodigies, and the Greatest Miracle of All Time - Hardcover

    The People Can Fly: American Promise, Black Prodigies, and the Greatest Miracle of All Time - Hardcover

    By Joshua Bennett

About Joshua Bennett

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), The Study of Human Life (Penguin, 2022), and Spoken Word: A Cultural History (Knopf, 2023). 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 Literature and Distinguished Chair of the Humanities at MIT.