Dr. Joshua Bennett‍

Dr. Joshua Bennett is a Distinguished Chair of the Humanities and Professor of Literature at MIT, the founding editor of the Duke Poetry Series, and the founder and principal of Solon: a design studio specializing in the art of adaption. He is the author of seven books, which have received numerous awards including the Paterson Poetry Prize, the National Poetry Series award, and the New Yorker Best Book of the Year. Dr. Bennett will be speaking about the themes in his latest work, WE (The People of the United States), a book-length poem made to the measure of the modern world. In WE, Dr. Bennett summons Virgil’s Georgics as a lens through which to not only tell the story of his family, but a much larger one about the “form of the American mind,” our relationship to the natural world, and the pursuit of a dignified, abundant life.