Background
Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut.
Joshua Beckman
Zupruder (left) and Beckman on the bus tour, desert prophets spreading the Wave word.
(Nice Hat. Thanks. is an innovative book based on the reco...)
Nice Hat. Thanks. is an innovative book based on the recorded improvised poetic collaborations between two award-winning poets, Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0972348700/?tag=2022091-20
2004
(Award-winning poet Joshua Beckman returns with 150 extrao...)
Award-winning poet Joshua Beckman returns with 150 extraordinary short lyrics which build a kind of meta-narrative throughout this haunting and powerful book.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0972348751/?tag=2022091-20
2004
(Collected here as two books in conversation—and inaugurat...)
Collected here as two books in conversation—and inaugurating Wave’s Bagley Wright Lecture Series publications—these talks provide a rare and unique insight into a deeply literary life.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1940696429/?tag=2022091-20
Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut.
Joshua attended Hampshire College.
Joshua Beckman is the author of nine books, including The Inside of an Apple, Take It, Shake, Your Time Has Come, and two collaborations with Matthew Rohrer: Nice Hat. Thanks. and Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty.
Joshua 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 by Carlos Oquendo de Amat and Poker by Tomaž Šalamun, which was a finalist for the PEN America Poetry in Translation Award. Beckman also contributes to periodicals, including Gulf Coast, Response, and Another Chicago.
(Collected here as two books in conversation—and inaugurat...)
(Award-winning poet Joshua Beckman returns with 150 extrao...)
2004(The inaugural winner of the annual American Poetry Review...)
1998(Nice Hat. Thanks. is an innovative book based on the reco...)
2004Beckman is a fellow of Albee Foundation, Millay Colony, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.