Joshua Marie Wilkinson Explained

Joshua Marie Wilkinson (born December 2, 1977) is an American poet, editor, publisher, and filmmaker.^[1]

Life

He was born on December 2, 1977, and raised in Haller Lake neighborhood, Seattle, Washington. His given name is Joshua Wilson; his grandmother's name was Marie Wilkinson, after whom he writes and publishes. He earned degrees in Poetry (M.F.A., University of Arizona), Film (M.A., University College Dublin), and English (PhD, University of Denver). He has also edited five anthologies^[2] and directed a tour documentary of the band Califone with Solan Jensen released in 2011 by IndiePix.^[3]

His work appeared at PEN Poetry Series,^[4] Academy of American Poets,^[5] the Poetry Society of America,^[6] Boston Review,^[7] and Bomb.^[8] His writing has also been featured in many anthologies including both Postmodern American Poetry edited by Paul Hoover^[9] and Language Lessons: Vol. 1^[10] from Jack White's Third Man Records, which was featured in Rolling Stone,^[11] Spin,^[12] The Guardian,^[13] and elsewhere.^[14]

He currently teaches creative writing at University of Arizona^[15] and is a founding editor of the online literary journal of poetry and poetics The Volta.^{[16] [17]} and a founding editor of the small press Letter Machine Editions, which has been honored by the National Book Award Foundation.^{[18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27]}

He is married to the writer Lisa Wells.^[28]

Selected works

Books

• The Courier's Archive & Hymnal, Sidebrow Books, 2013, ^{[29] [6] [30] [31]}
• Swamp Isthmus, Black Ocean, 2013, ^{[32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38]}
• Selenography, with Polaroids by Tim Rutili, Sidebrow Books, 2010, ^{[39] [40] [41] [42]}
• The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth, Tupelo Press, 2009, ^{[43] [44] [45] [46]}
• Figures for a Darkroom Voice, (with Noah Eli Gordon) Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2007, ^{[47] [48] [49] [50]}
• Lug Your Careless Body Out of the Careful Dusk: A Poem in Fragments, University of Iowa Press, 2006, ^{[51] [52] [53]}
• Suspension of a Secret in Abandoned Rooms, Pinball Publishing, 2005, ^{[54] [55]}

Anthologies

• Anne Carson: Ecstatic Lyre, University of Michigan Press, 2015, ^[56]
• The Volta Book of Poets, Sidebrow Books, 2015, ^{[57] [58]}
• The Force of What's Possible: Writers on Accessibility & the Avant-Garde, with Lily Hoang, Nightboat Books, 2015, ^{[59] [60] [61] [62] [63]}
• Poets on Teaching: A Sourcebook, University of Iowa Press, 2010, ^{[64] [65] [66] [67] [68]}
• 12x12: Conversations in 21st-Century Poetry and Poetics, with Christina Mengert, University of Iowa Press, 2009, ^{[69] [70] [71]}

Chapbooks

• A Little Slash at the Meadow, Above/Ground Press, 2013^[72]
• In the Trade of Alive Letters Mis-sent, Brave Men Press, 2011^[73]
• I go by Edgar Huntly now, DoubleCross Press, 2009^[74]
• Until the Lantern's Shaky Song: poems for my friends, Cinematheque Press, 2009
• Cold Faction, Further Adventures Press, 2009^[75]
• The Book of Flashlights, Clover, & Milk (Pilot Books, 2008)^[76]
• The Book of Truants & Projectorlight (Octopus Books, 2006)^[77]
• A Ghost as King of the Rabbits (New Michigan Press, 2005)^{[78] [79]}

Films

• Made a Machine by Describing the Landscape: a film about Califone, co-directed by Solan Jensen (IndiePix Films, 2011)^[3]

External links

• BOMB Magazine Interview: Part I (by Peter Moysaenko)
• BOMB Magazine Interview: Part II (by Peter Moysaenko)
• eyelashfire
• A Moth in the Projectorlight [excerpt] by Joshua Marie Wilkinson - Poems | Academy of American Poets
• rabbit light movies, online journal of poemfilms; the journal was created by Joshua Marie Wilkinson
• an interview
• A SAINT AMONG THE STRAGGLERS’ BEDS (PART 2), a poem in Octopus Magazine #11
• an interview with Abraham Smith by Joshua Marie Wilkinson

Notes and References

1. Web site: Marie Wilkinson Age. bahatibook.com. 2020-10-03.
2. Web site: Joshua Marie Wilkinson - University of Iowa Press. www.uiowapress.org.
3. Web site: Made a Machine By Describing the Landscape (DVD) - Solan Jensen, Joshua Marie Wilkinson. www.indiepixfilms.com. 2014-08-30. 2018-10-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20181005141303/http://www.indiepixfilms.com/film/5191. dead.
4. Web site: A Song Called Shudder - PEN America. 25 December 2013.
5. Web site: A Moth in the Projectorlight [excerpt]]. aapone. 15 February 2006. A Moth in the Projectorlight [excerpt].
6. Web site: Joshua Marie Wilkinson on "Fortnight's Insignia" - Poetry Society of America. psa.fcny.org.
7. Web site: A Brief History of Ghost Hunting. Intern. 12 July 2012. Boston Review.
8. Web site: BOMB Magazine — Three Poems by Joshua Marie Wilkinson . 2014-04-17 . 2014-04-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140419013516/http://bombmagazine.org/article/6737/ . dead .
9. Web site: Home Page.
10. Web site: Language Lessons: Volume 1 . 2014-08-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140903203830/http://thirdmanstore.com/featured/language-lessons-volume-1 . 2014-09-03 .
11. Jack White's Third Man Records Starts Publishing Wing. Rolling Stone. 22 July 2014.
12. Web site: Jack White Enters Publishing Game With Third Man Books. 22 July 2014.
13. Web site: Jack White's Third Man Records launches publishing wing. Guardian. music. 23 July 2014. the Guardian.
14. Web site: Marie wilkinson Book. Marie wilkinson Post.
15. Web site: Joshua Matthew Wilson | Department of English . 2014-08-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140904032244/http://english.arizona.edu/users/joshua-matthew-wilson . 2014-09-04 .
16. Web site: Volta: An Interview with Joshua Marie Wilkinson - Tin House. 25 October 2012.
17. Web site: Thinking About Poetry With Others: Joshua Marie Wilkinson's Reviews Issue of Evening Will Come by Harriet Staff. 30 May 2018. Poetry Foundation.
18. Web site: Letter Machine Editions. Letter Machine Editions.
19. Web site: The Feel Trio by Fred Moten, 2014 National Book Award Finalist, Poetry. www.nationalbook.org.
20. Web site: 2014 National Book Awards. www.nationalbook.org.
21. Web site: National Book Foundation Names Poetry Finalists. Alexandra. Alter. 16 September 2014.
22. News: Poetry longlist for the National Book Award. Ron. Charles. The Washington Post. 16 September 2014.
23. Web site: National Book Awards' Second Annual Long-Lists Honor Jane Smiley, Edward O. Wilson, Louise Glück, & More.
24. Web site: Book News: Rankine, Glück On National Book Awards Longlist For Poetry. NPR. 16 September 2014 . Quinn . Annalisa .
25. Web site: Holes and Bodies and Secrets and Skin and Death | VICE | United States . 2017-09-02 . 2016-03-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304034820/http://www.vice.com/print/holes-and-bodies-and-secrets-and-skin-and-death . dead .
26. Web site: Valentines - Los Angeles Review of Books. 14 February 2014 .
27. Web site: Poetry Profiles: Octopus Press. Dana. Jennings. 16 June 2014.
28. Web site: Joshua Marie Wilkinson: bio. www.joshuamariewilkinson.com. 2019-07-25.
29. Web site:

    Sidebrow - Books - The Courier's Archive & Hymnal ::

    . www.sidebrow.net.
30. Web site: Review #79: 'The Courier's Archive & Hymnal' by Joshua Marie Wilkinson.
31. Web site: Fiction Book Review: The Courier's Archive & Hymnal by Joshua Marie Wilkinson. Sidebrow (SPD, dist.), $15 trade paper (56p) ISBN 978-0-9814975-9-4. April 2014 .
32. Web site: Black Ocean - Swamp Isthmus . 2013-05-23 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130616064913/http://www.blackocean.org/swamp-isthmus/ . 2013-06-16 .
33. Web site: Amazon.com: Poetry - Best Books of 2013: Books. www.amazon.com.
34. Web site: Book Review: Swamp Isthmus by Joshua Marie Wilkinson - The Los Angeles Review. 25 April 2014.
35. Web site: Swamp Isthmus by Joshua Marie Wilkinson. 18 September 2013.
36. Web site: April Reviews: Joshua Marie Wilkinson « Kenyon Review Blog. 18 April 2013.
37. Web site: Fiction Book Review: Swamp Isthmus by Joshua Marie Wilkinson. Black Ocean (SPD, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (88p) ISBN 978-1-9395680-0-7. April 2013.
38. Web site: Swamp Isthmus - Center for Literary Publishing. coloradoreview.colostate.edu.
39. Web site:

    Sidebrow - Books - Selenography ::

    . www.sidebrow.net.
40. Web site: Bookslut - Selenography by Joshua Marie Wilkinson. www.bookslut.com.
41. Web site: Moon and River [by Emma Trelles] - The Best American Poetry]. blog.bestamericanpoetry.com.
42. http://www.newpages.com/bookreviews/default_files/archive/2010-07/index.htm#Selenography-by-Joshua-Marie-Wilkinson{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
43. Web site: Tupelo Press — the Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth by Joshua Marie Wilkinson . 2014-08-30 . 2014-09-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140904032235/http://www.tupelopress.org/books/whispering . dead .
44. Web site: Galatea Resurrects #16 (A Poetry Engagement): THE BOOK OF WHISPERING IN THE PROJECTION BOOTH by JOSHUA MARIE WILKINSON. Eileen. 30 March 2011.
45. Web site: Review-a-Day - the Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth by Joshua Marie Wilkinson, reviewed by Rain Taxi - Powell's Books . 2014-08-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140903102432/http://www.powells.com/review/2010_04_19.html . 2014-09-03 .
46. Web site: Sugar House Review(s). Sugar House. Review.
47. Web site: Figures for a Darkroom Voice. 1 October 2007.
48. Web site: Wolves & Brothers . 2014-08-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140904210609/http://artvoice.com/issues/v6n40/in_the_margins/wolves_and_brothers . 2014-09-04 . dead .
49. Web site: Figures for a Darkroom Voice.
50. Web site: Prick of the Spindle: Reviews: Vera: Figures for a Darkroom Voice . 2014-08-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120725122345/http://www.prickofthespindle.com/reviews/2.4/small%20presses/gordon_wilkinson/figures_for_a_darkroom_voice.htm . 2012-07-25 .
51. Web site: Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk - University of Iowa Press. www.uiowapress.org.
52. Web site: Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk. Intern. 10 July 2012. Boston Review.
53. Web site: Lug Your Careless Body Out of the Careful Dusk: A Poem in Fragments.
54. Web site: Bookslut - Suspension of a Secret in Abandoned Rooms by Joshua Marie Wilkinson. www.bookslut.com.
55. Web site: Joshua Marie Wilkinson's _ Suspension of a Secret in Abandoned Rooms _ reviewed by Alexis M. Smith. www.tarpaulinsky.com.
56. Anne Carson. University of Michigan Press.
57. Web site:

    Sidebrow - Books - The Volta Book of Poets ::

    . www.sidebrow.net.
58. Web site: [REVIEW] The Volta Book of Poets, edited by Joshua Maria Wilkinson - [PANK]]. 23 July 2015.
59. Web site: Nightboat Books. www.nightboat.org.
60. Web site: Joshua Marie Wilkinson and Lily Hoang on Accessibility and the Price of Understanding/Understandability. www.essaydaily.org.
61. Web site: Porter Square Books Blog: What is Accessibility in Literature?. Josh. 14 April 2015.
62. Web site: The Force of What's Possible, ed. Lily Hoang and Joshua Marie Wilkinson.
63. Web site: The Force of What’s Possible – Lily Hoang & Joshua Marie Wilkinson.
64. Web site: Poets on Teaching - University of Iowa Press. www.uiowapress.org.
65. Web site: How to Stay Sane in the Classroom (Poets' Division) – PageView - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education. chronicle.com. 19 July 2010 .
66. Web site: On Poets on Teaching: A Sourcebook | Kenyon Review Online. The Kenyon Review.
67. Countering the Pedagogy of Regression. Kevin. Craft. 24 September 2011. Pedagogy. 11. 3. 609–614. 10.1215/15314200-1302899. 144786865. Project MUSE.
68. Web site: The 95¢ Skool. mgannon. 23 November 2015. The 95¢ Skool.
69. Web site: 12 x 12 - University of Iowa Press. www.uiowapress.org.
70. News: A Garland of Garlands: 2009 Poetry Anthologies. Publishersweekly.com .
71. Web site: Book Reviews by Date - July 1, 2009. www.newpages.com.
72. Web site: above/ground press: new from above/ground press: A Little Slash at the Meadow, by Joshua Marie Wilkinson. Rob. Mclennan. 11 February 2013.
73. Web site: bravemenpress.com. bravemenpress.com.
74. Web site: DOUBLECROSS PRESS: SSS #1: I go by Edgar Huntly now :: Joshua Marie Wilkinson . 2014-08-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140903095120/http://www.doublecrosspress.com/2009/02/sss-1-i-go-by-edgar-huntly-now.html . 2014-09-03 .
75. Web site: FURTHER ADVENTURES CHAPBOOKS & PAMPHLETS: All Types of Breath Included/Cold Faction. B.j. 24 February 2009.
76. Web site: Forms of Enthusiasm: On Chapbooks « Kenyon Review Blog. 5 November 2012.
77. Web site: Chapbook Omnibus Review Part 3, Randy Marshall. www.blackbird.vcu.edu.
78. Web site: NMP ordering. www.thediagram.com.
79. Web site: A Ghost as King of the Rabbits, Joshua Marie Wilkinson - Chapbook Finding Aid - Subject Guides at Grand Valley State University . 2014-08-30 . 2016-03-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304035024/http://libguides.gvsu.edu/c.php?g=108594&p=703835 . dead .