#  The People Can Fly, by Joshua Bennett 

 



   ![book cover for The People Can Fly](/sites/g/files/omnuum12196/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/2026-05/9780316576024.jpg.png?itok=_LRxlaBb) 

 

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

#### by former Junior Fellow Joshua Bennett (2016 - 19)

What does it mean to be deemed promising in an unjust world? The award-winning poet and MIT Distinguished Chair of the Humanities interrogates this question—and offers a more expansive vision of giftedness—in this hybrid work of memoir and cultural history.

Published February 3, 2026 by [Little, Brown and Company](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joshua-bennett-2/the-people-can-fly/9780316576024/).



 



 

 See also:- [ Publications ](/page-categories/publications)