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ARCHIVE – Joshua Edwards

Architecture for Travelers

ARCHIVE – Joshua Edwards

Poet, translator, and editor Joshua Edwards was born in Galveston, Texas. He earned his MFA from the University of Michigan. His collections of poetry include Campeche (2011), which includes photographs taken by his father, the photographer Van Edwards, Imperial Nostalgias (2013), and Architecture for Travelers (2014). He is also the author of a photobook, Photographs Taken at One-Hour Intervals During a Walk from Galveston Island to the West Texas Town of Marfa, and his translation of Mexican poet María Baranda’s Ficticia (2010) was nominated for a Northern California Book Award.
 
Edwards is director and coeditor of Canarium Books, a small press devoted to publishing innovative poetry and translations. He was a Fulbright grantee, a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University, and he received a fellowship from the Akademie Schloss Solitude. When not traveling, he lives with his wife, the poet Lynn Xu, in Marfa, Texas.

Architecture for Travelers

Architecture for Travelers collects poetry written during a year at the Akademie Schloss Solitude and a travelogue written during and after the walk from Galveston to Marfa. Many of the poems were made for collaborations with Charlotte Moth (artist), Alan Worn (architect), Lynn Xu (poet), and Peter Jakober (composer). The book was published in November 2014 in a bilingual German/English edition by Edition Solitude in Stuttgart, and poems from it have appeared or are forthcoming in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Oversound, a chapbook from Private Line, exhibitions in Les Arques and Gourdon in France, and a choral performance in Graz, Austria.
Note: Joshua Edwards will also be presenting at the Esker Foundation, 444, 1-11 9th Ave. S.E., 403-930-2490
Friday, October 16, 7-8pm

Encounters, Concurrences, Conversations with Joshua Edwards

Encounters, Concurrences, Conversations will address questions of collaborative and interdisciplinary work, with a spotlight on projects undertaken by poet Joshua Edwards and his friends, including the artist Charlotte Moth, which involve photography, film, poetry, performance, and architecture. During this talk, Edwards will also discuss how time, community, travel, and landscape figure into the work of several artists with whom he has collaborated. Joshua Edwards is a poet, translator, and editor based in Marfa, Texas.

Registration recommended.

Saturday, October 17, 1-4pm

Across Mediums: Poetry and Visual Notebooks with Joshua Edwards

Utilizing a dozen of their own travel photographs or sketches participants will begin a series of poems or prose vignettes in this poetry workshop. We will undertake ekphrastic exercises, write a few imitations to get the gears moving, and talk about strategies for organizing text and images together.

Registration essential.

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