Joshua Beckman is an editor at Wave Books, and the author of Things Are Happening (1998), winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Award, Something I Expected to Be Different(2001), Your Time Has Come (2001), Shake (2006), and Take It (2009). He has also collaborated with Matthew Rohrer on the bookNice Hat. Thanks (2002) and the CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty (2004).
Beckman co-edited State of the Union: 50 Political Poems (2008), an anthology of political poems, with Matthew Zapruder. He has also translated poems by Carlos Oquendo de Amat and Tomaž Šalamun.
