News Archive

June 2008
Joshua is making headway on his next two books, Closen and Holy Ghost People. Hurrah for summer.

February 2008
Recent work appears at Electronic Poetry Review and in Shenandoah.

January 2008
Reginal Shepherd cites Glean as one of his favorite books of 2007. Read more at harriet, the Poetry Foundation blog.

December 2007
Visit Joshua at GoodReads.

November 2007
Katy Didden interviews Joshua for the Missouri Review podcast.

October 2007
Joshua's work is featured at From the Fishouse.

August 2007
Kate Greenstreet interviews Joshua on kickingwind.com.

July 2007
Joshua's interview with Cathy Park Hong appears in the online edition of Poets&Writers.

May 2007
Glean is selected as a finalist for Shenandoah's Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers.

April 2007
"Come Hither" is a finalist for the 2007 Crazyhorse Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize.

March 2007
"My Easter" is a finalist for Phoebe's Greg Grummer Poetry Prize, judged by Carl Phillips. Phillips writes, "Both the lineation and the extended sentences – themselves examples of stall and hurry – [reproduce] the strange wake of loss, and a sensibility within which to contemplate the conundrum of how the body not only comes undone but seems also to want to undo itself."

January 2007
"Numen" wins the 2007 Third Coast Poetry Award, judged by Carolyn Forché. Forché writes, "'Numen' dwells meditatively upon questions of conscience—the voice that calls us to responsibility—and the dialectic of doubt and faith. I admire this poem for its ambition and acknowledgement of difficulties, philosophical and poetic."