Joshua Beckman

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Joshua Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of nine books, including the forthcoming The Inside of an Apple (Wave Books, 2013), Take It, Shake, Your Time Has Come, and two collaborations with Matthew Rohrer: Nice Hat. Thanks. and Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He is an editor at Wave Books and has translated numerous works of poetry and prose, including Micrograms, by Jorge Carrera Andrade, 5 Meters of Poems (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010) by Carlos Oquendo de Amat and Poker (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008) by Tomaž Šalamun, which was a finalist for the PEN America Poetry in Translation Award. He is also the recipient of numerous other awards, including a NYFA fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. He lives in Seattle and New York.
Reviews of books by Joshua Beckman

The Inside of an Apple

Micrograms

Take It

Gentle Reader

Shake

Your Time Has Come

Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty

Nice Hat. Thanks.

Something I Expected to be Different
-Check out Joshua Beckman's limited edition books with The Brother in Elysium

Poems
- Excerpts from Your Time Has Come (in The Daily Beast)
- Nine poems from Your Time Has Come (in A Public Space)
- “the going. the letters. the staying.” (in Poetrying)
- “About the days” (in Bold Type)
- Two poems (in Fou)
- “In Colorado, In Oregon, upon.” (in Horiwood's Blog)
- Two Sonnets (in Now Culture)
- A poem from Your Time Has Come (in La Petite Zine)
- “[Lying in bed I think about you]” (in Poetry)

Interviews
- Library of Congress, with Caitlin Rizzo
- Bomb Magazine, with Susie DeFord
- The Brooklyn Rail, with Erika Anderson

Translations
- Four poems from Micrograms (in Loaded Bicycle)

On collaborations with Matthew Rohrer
- Jordan Davis, The Village Voice
- Nina MacLaughin, The Boston Pheonix
- Interview with Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer in Painted Bride Quarterly
- Three collaborative poems (in Octopus)
- Archive of Joshua Beckman's readings at the Knox Writers House
- A recording of Joshua Beckman's book making tutorial for the Henry Art Gallery's Shelf Life residency at Hankblog.
- Matthew Rohrer and Joshua Beckman's collaborative reading at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, Spring 2010.
- Reading at Machine Project in Los Angeles, April 23, 2009:

- "Karate Chop of Love":

- Reading Frank O'Hara on the Poetry Bus Tour:
No readings are scheduled at this time.