Joshua Beckman
Template:Short description Template:Infobox writer Joshua Beckman is an American poet.<ref name="auto">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Life
[edit]Joshua Beckman was born in 1971 New Haven, Connecticut,<ref>Template:Cite web</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>Template:Cite web</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
[edit]Beckman was the tour coordinator<ref>Template:Cite web</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>Template:Cite web</ref>
Bibliography
[edit]- The Inside of an Apple<ref>Template:Cite book</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, Template:ISBN
- Shake<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Your Time Has Come, Verse Press, 2004, Template:ISBN
- Poker by Tomaž Šalamun (translated by Joshua Beckman) (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2004)
- Nice Hat. Thanks. Verse Press, 2002, Template:ISBN; (with Matthew Rohrer)
- Something I Expected To Be Different, Verse Press, 2001, Template:ISBN
- Things Are Happening Copper Canyon Press, 1998, Template:ISBN
Discography
[edit]- Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty (2003) - with Matthew Rohrer