Joshua Beckman | |
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Joshua Beckman is an American poet.[1][2]
Joshua Beckman was born in 1971New Haven, Connecticut,[3] and graduated fromHampshire College.[1]
He is the author of eight collections of poetry, includingThe Inside of an Apple (which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award),Take It,Shake, andThings Are Happening, which won the first annual Honickman-APR book award. He has collaborated withMatthew Rohrer on live improvised poems, collected in the bookNice Hat. Thanks and the audio CDAdventures 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.[4]
Beckman is an editor atWave Books and has translated numerous works of poetry and prose, includingPoker byTomaž 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 ofHampshire College inAmherst, 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.
Beckman was the tour coordinator[5] of thePoetry Bus Tour, a literary event sponsored byWave Books in 2006. It featured a tour of contemporary poets, traveling by a 40-footbiodiesel bus, who stopped to perform in 50 North American cities over the course of 50 days.[6]
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