# Joshua Beckman > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Joshua_Beckman > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Joshua_Beckman.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Beckman > Source revision: 1347335447 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) American poet Joshua Beckman Born New Haven, Connecticut Occupation Poet, editor Nationality American **Joshua Beckman** is an American poet.[1][2] ## Life Joshua Beckman was born in 1971 [New Haven, Connecticut](/source/New_Haven%2C_Connecticut),[3] and graduated from [Hampshire College](/source/Hampshire_College).[1] 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 [Matthew Rohrer](/source/Matthew_Rohrer) 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.[4] Beckman is an editor at [Wave Books](/source/Wave_Books) and has translated numerous works of poetry and prose, including *Poker* by [Tomaž Šalamun](/source/Toma%C5%BE_%C5%A0alamun), 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](/source/Hampshire_College) in [Amherst, Massachusetts](/source/Amherst%2C_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[5] of the [Poetry Bus Tour](/source/Poetry_Bus_Tour), a literary event sponsored by [Wave Books](/source/Wave_Books) in 2006. It featured a tour of contemporary poets, traveling by a 40-foot [biodiesel](/source/Biodiesel) bus, who stopped to perform in 50 North American cities over the course of 50 days.[6] ## Bibliography - *The Inside of an Apple*[7] - *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, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781933517377](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781933517377) - *Shake*[8] - *Your Time Has Come*, Verse Press, 2004, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780972348751](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780972348751) - *Poker* by Tomaž Šalamun (translated by Joshua Beckman) (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2004) - *Nice Hat. Thanks.* Verse Press, 2002, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780972348706](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780972348706); (with [Matthew Rohrer](/source/Matthew_Rohrer)) - *Something I Expected To Be Different*, Verse Press, 2001, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780970367242](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780970367242) - *Things Are Happening* [Copper Canyon Press](/source/Copper_Canyon_Press), 1998, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780966339512](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780966339512) ## Discography - *Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty* (2003) - with [Matthew Rohrer](/source/Matthew_Rohrer) ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-auto_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-auto_1-1) Poets, Academy of American. ["About Joshua Beckman | Academy of American Poets"](https://poets.org/poet/joshua-beckman). *Poets.org*. Retrieved 25 October 2021. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Poetry Bus Tour » Joshua Beckman"](https://web.archive.org/web/20071028133816/http://poetrybus.com/joshua-beckman/). Archived from [the original](http://www.poetrybus.com/joshua-beckman/) on 2007-10-28. Retrieved 2008-01-13. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Joshua Beckman"](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/joshua-beckman). *Poetryfoundation.org*. 25 October 2021. Retrieved 25 October 2021. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["MoMA | More Eavesdropping: Art, Poetry, and Everyday Encounters"](https://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2010/04/22/more-eavesdropping-art-poetry-and-everyday-encounters/). *Moma.org*. Retrieved 25 October 2021. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Issues"](https://web.archive.org/web/20211118234445/https://believermag.com/issues/). *Believer Magazine*. Archived from [the original](https://believermag.com/issues/) on 18 November 2021. Retrieved 25 October 2021. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Poetry Bus | Wave Books"](https://www.wavepoetry.com/pages/poetry-bus). *Wavepoetry.com*. Retrieved 25 October 2021. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** [*The Inside of an Apple*](https://books.google.com/books?id=DmlgAwAAQBAJ). [Wave Books](/source/Wave_Books). 3 September 2013. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-933517-78-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-933517-78-0). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** [*Shake*](https://books.google.com/books?id=1GFgAwAAQBAJ). Wave Books. 1 April 2006. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-933517-00-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-933517-00-1). ## External links - [Joshua Beckman's author page at Wave Books](http://www.wavepoetry.com/authors/31-joshua-beckman) - [Poetry Bus Tour 2006](http://www.poetrybus.com/) - ["From Town to Town They Go, A Busload of Poets, Rhymes in Tow", *The New York Sun*](http://www.nysun.com/article/41560) Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF GND FAST WorldCat National United States Poland Other IdRef Yale LUX --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Joshua Beckman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Beckman) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Beckman?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.