Editing Joshua Beckman

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'''Joshua Beckman''' is an American poet.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://poets.org/poet/joshua-beckman|title=About Joshua Beckman &#124; Academy of American Poets|first=Academy of American|last=Poets|website=Poets.org|access-date=25 October 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.poetrybus.com/joshua-beckman/ |title=Poetry Bus Tour » Joshua Beckman |access-date=2008-01-13 |archive-date=2007-10-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071028133816/http://poetrybus.com/joshua-beckman/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Life==
Joshua Beckman was born in 1971 [[New Haven, Connecticut]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/joshua-beckman|title=Joshua Beckman|date=25 October 2021|website=Poetryfoundation.org|access-date=25 October 2021}}</ref> and graduated from [[Hampshire College]].<ref name="auto"/>

He is the author of eight collections of poetry, including ''The Inside of an Apple'' (which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award), ''Take It'', ''Shake'', and ''Things Are Happening'', which won the first annual Honickman-APR book award. He has collaborated with [[Matthew Rohrer]] on live improvised poems, collected in the book ''Nice Hat. Thanks'' and the audio CD ''Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty'' (which was recorded while on a 25-city tour). As part of their collaboration Beckman and Rohrer also performed an improvised walking tour of the Brooklyn Museum and a class on eavesdropping for the Museum of Modern Art.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2010/04/22/more-eavesdropping-art-poetry-and-everyday-encounters/|title=MoMA &#124; More Eavesdropping: Art, Poetry, and Everyday Encounters|website=Moma.org|access-date=25 October 2021}}</ref>  

Beckman is an editor at [[Wave Books]] and has translated numerous works of poetry and prose, including ''Poker'' by [[Tomaž Šalamun]], which was a finalist for the PEN America Poetry in Translation Award, as well as multiple co-translations with Alejandro de Acosta.

Beckman is also the recipient of numerous other awards, including a NYFA fellowship and a Pushcart Prize.

A graduate of [[Hampshire College]] in [[Amherst, Massachusetts]], he was the editor of the short-lived literary magazine, ''Object Lesson'', which served as inspiration for subsequent literary and artistic publishing ventures.

He lives in Seattle and New York.

==Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour 2006==
Beckman was the tour coordinator<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://believermag.com/issues/|title=Issues|website=Believer Magazine|access-date=25 October 2021|archive-date=18 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211118234445/https://believermag.com/issues/|url-status=dead}}</ref> of the [[Poetry Bus Tour]], a literary event sponsored by [[Wave Books]] in 2006. It featured a tour of contemporary poets, traveling by a 40-foot [[biodiesel]] bus, who stopped to perform in 50 North American cities over the course of 50 days.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wavepoetry.com/pages/poetry-bus|title=Poetry Bus &#124; Wave Books|website=Wavepoetry.com|access-date=25 October 2021}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
*''The Inside of an Apple''<ref>{{cite book|title=The Inside of an Apple|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DmlgAwAAQBAJ|date=3 September 2013|publisher=[[Wave Books]]|isbn=978-1-933517-78-0}}</ref>
*''Micrograms'' (Wave Books, 2011; co-translated with Alejandro de Acosta)
*''5 Meters of Poems by Carlos Oquendo de Amat'' (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010; co-translated with Alejandro de Acosta)
*''Take It'', Wave Books, 2009, {{ISBN|9781933517377}} 
*''Shake''<ref>{{cite book|title=Shake|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1GFgAwAAQBAJ|date=1 April 2006|publisher=Wave Books|isbn=978-1-933517-00-1}}</ref>
*''Your Time Has Come'', Verse Press, 2004, {{ISBN|9780972348751}} 
*''Poker'' by Tomaž Šalamun (translated by Joshua Beckman) (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2004)
*''Nice Hat. Thanks.'' Verse Press, 2002, {{ISBN|9780972348706}}; (with [[Matthew Rohrer]]) 
*''Something I Expected To Be Different'', Verse Press, 2001, {{ISBN|9780970367242}} 
*''Things Are Happening'' [[Copper Canyon Press]], 1998, {{ISBN|9780966339512}}

==Discography==
*''Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty'' (2003) - with [[Matthew Rohrer]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.wavepoetry.com/authors/31-joshua-beckman Joshua Beckman's author page at Wave Books]
*[http://www.poetrybus.com/ Poetry Bus Tour 2006]
*[http://www.nysun.com/article/41560 "From Town to Town They Go, A Busload of Poets, Rhymes in Tow", ''The New York Sun'']

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