We (the People of the United States), by Joshua Bennett

We (the People of the United States)

by former Junior Fellow Joshua Bennett (2016 - 19)

Published the year of the nation’s 250th anniversary, We is a book-length poem featuring features a breathtaking range of characters and concerns: The Beach Boys, Gwendolyn Brooks, the invention of the typewriter, Zora Neale Hurston, Sun Ra, life on Mars, Robert Frost, experimental physics, The Jackson 5. The Boston Globe deemed it “an ode to the America that was, is, and will be.”

Published March 17, 2026 by Penguin Random House.