Beckman will tour extensively in 2006, reading in at least 50 cities including Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Minneapolis, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Athens, GA, Boston, Toronto, and New York. Several radio appearances planned. Hometown: Seattle, WA (Beckman is a newcomer to the Seattle poetry scene) and also New York, NY (where he is a well-known fixture).

Beckman's new poems come to us directly and intimately. Compulsively readable, full of fear and persistence, they resonate with the wildness and generosity of Ginsberg, Whitman, and Ted Berrigan, turning the everyday into an encompassing, harrowing, humorous, necessary vision. Beckman is, as Publishers Weekly notes, "the real thing." Joshua Beckman is the author of numerous poetry collections, translations, and collaborative works. His awards include a NYFA Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. He lives in Seattle and New York.