Joshua Bennett Princeton 1st yr. Ph.D at the White House

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2510   11 years ago
Joshua Bennett Princeton 1st yr. Ph.D Performs at the White House Poetry Jam
http://paw.princeton.edu...But for performance poet Joshua Bennett, a first-year Princeton University Ph.D. student in English, the solution is simple. “In bed,” Bennett explained. “Almost every poem I’ve written in bed.”Bennett achieved national fame through competitive “slam poetry” events while he was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania. While he no longer competes, Bennett remains an active spoken-word poet, performing at venues around the country. He also does hip-hop and writes brief poems on his Twitter page, noting that the 140-character limit is “great for parsimony. THIS VIDEO: Brave New Voices slam champion Joshua Bennett performs "Tamaraʼs Opus at the White House Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word on May 12, 2009.
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