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

 



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### 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](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/769171/we-the-people-of-the-united-states-by-joshua-bennett/).



 



 

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