Joshua Bennett reading, NC A&T, April 11

I made a road trip to see the brilliant Joshua Bennett up in Greensboro. Dude is super smart, personable, an amazing reader-I'm sure his students love him at MIT. His latest book, The Study of Human Life, is a collection of poetry that contains what I think would be best termed a novella that is being developed into a TV show by Lena Waithe. It's just amazing to see this kid who blew up on the slam scene and performed at the White House grow into an accomplished writer, professor, husband, and father of two. I was flattered when he signed my copy of Human Life-I gave him my name and he said "hey, I know you from the internet!" I replied, "I know you from everything! We started chatting and we could've gone on awhile-I said "Man let me let you and these folks go..." definitely worth the trip to see him and to get to chat with some young poets who came out as well.