Joshua Bennett is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at Princeton University and has received fellowships from the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and the Ford Foundation. Winner of the 2015 Erskine J. Poetry Prize, his poems have been published or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Blackbird, Callaloo, New England Review,and elsewhere. Bennett is also the founding editor of Kinfolks: a journal of black expression.
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Still Life with Toy Gun
for Tamir Rice and John Crawford III
after the after-party empties both of its fists the seven of us gather like a murderof crows to loose…
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