Joshua Beckman is an American poet.

Life

Joshua Beckman was born in 1971 New Haven, Connecticut, and graduated from Hampshire College.

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

Beckman was the tour coordinator 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.

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 Matthew Rohrer)
  • Something I Expected To Be Different, Verse Press, 2001,
  • Things Are Happening Copper Canyon Press, 1998,

Discography

  • Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty (2003) - with Matthew Rohrer

References

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