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[CANCELED] Joshua Beckman
February 11, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Free[CANCELLATION Notice: Due to the weather forecasts for Seattle and Portland, we have decided to cancel Monday night’s reading by Joshua Beckman and reschedule it for a later date. We look forward to hosting Beckman at PSU soon — stay tuned!]
PSU’s Creative Writing Program presents a reading with Joshua Beckman!
Joshua Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of many books, including The Lives of the Poems and Three Talks (2018), 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. He is editor-in-chief at Wave Books and has translated numerous works of poetry and prose, including Micrograms by Jorge Carrera Andrade, 5 Meters of Poems (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010) by Carlos Oquendo de Amat, and Poker (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008) by Tomaž Šalamun, which was a finalist for the PEN America Poetry in Translation Award. He also co-edited Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners (Wave Books, 2015).
The reading will be held in Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 238