Joshua Beckman is an American poet.

Life

Joshua Beckman was born in 1971

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, and graduated from

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. 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

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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. Beckman is an editor at

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and has translated numerous works of poetry and prose, including ''Poker'' by

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, 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

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 of the Poetry Bus Tour, a literary event sponsored by

in 2006. It featured a tour of contemporary poets, traveling by a 40-foot

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bus, who stopped to perform in 50 North American cities over the course of 50 days.

Bibliography

*''The Inside of an Apple'' *''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, *''Shake'' *''Your Time Has Come'', Verse Press, 2004, *''Poker'' by Tomaž Šalamun (translated by Joshua Beckman) (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2004) *''Nice Hat. Thanks.'' Verse Press, 2002, ; (with

) *''Something I Expected To Be Different'', Verse Press, 2001, *''Things Are Happening''

Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press is an independent, non-profit small press, founded in 1972 specializing exclusively in the publication of poetry. It is located in Port Townsend, Washington. Copper Canyon Press publishes new collections of poetry by both pop ...

, 1998,

Discography

*''Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty'' (2003) - with

References

External links

Joshua Beckman's author page at Wave BooksPoetry Bus Tour 2006"From Town to Town They Go, A Busload of Poets, Rhymes in Tow", ''The New York Sun''
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