Dr. Joshua Bennett

Praise for Spoken Word

Bennett's engaging history of a literary and cultural movement that took hold in many realms - music, theater, film, television and, of course, poetry - tracks its evolution from the Nuyorican Poets Ca ...

New York Times, Editors’ Choice

Joshua Bennett wasn't on the sidelines observing the spoken word revolution he was in it, and he knew it was too good to be ghettoised, too uncut and raw to be ignored and too fly not to survive. It is rar ...

Roger Robinson, author of 'Home is Not a Place'

A galvanising, thoroughgoing history of rare literary quality. Dr Joshua Bennett is courageously personal and honest in his account, but it's a passion which speaks to all of us, and to anyone still fi ...

Luke Kennard, author of 'Notes on the Sonnets'

Bennett's engaging history of a literary and cultural movement that took hold in many realms - music, theater, film, television and, of course, poetry - tracks its evolution from the Nuyorican Poets Ca ...

New York Times, Editors’ Choice

Joshua Bennett wasn't on the sidelines observing the spoken word revolution he was in it, and he knew it was too good to be ghettoised, too uncut and raw to be ignored and too fly not to survive. It is rar ...

Roger Robinson, author of 'Home is Not a Place'

A galvanising, thoroughgoing history of rare literary quality. Dr Joshua Bennett is courageously personal and honest in his account, but it's a passion which speaks to all of us, and to anyone still fi ...

Luke Kennard, author of 'Notes on the Sonnets'

Bennett's engaging history of a literary and cultural movement that took hold in many realms - music, theater, film, television and, of course, poetry - tracks its evolution from the Nuyorican Poets Ca ...

New York Times, Editors’ Choice

Joshua Bennett wasn't on the sidelines observing the spoken word revolution he was in it, and he knew it was too good to be ghettoised, too uncut and raw to be ignored and too fly not to survive. It is rar ...

Roger Robinson, author of 'Home is Not a Place'

A galvanising, thoroughgoing history of rare literary quality. Dr Joshua Bennett is courageously personal and honest in his account, but it's a passion which speaks to all of us, and to anyone still fi ...

Luke Kennard, author of 'Notes on the Sonnets'