Joshua Bennett is the author of “The Sobbing School” (Penguin Books, 2016), a National Poetry Series selection. Charif Shanahan is the author of “Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing” (SIU Press, 2017), winner of the 2015 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. Patricia Smith is the author of six books of poetry, including "Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah" (2012), which won the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Co-sponsored with Cave Canem Foundation.
