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Joshua Corwin [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Los Angeles, CA
California US
Bio: 

Joshua Corwin, a Los Angeles native, is a neurodiverse, 2-time Pushcart Prize-nominated, Best of the Net-nominated poet and Winner of the 2021 Spillwords Press Award for Poetic Publication of the Year. His debut poetry collection Becoming Vulnerable (2020) details his experience with autism, addiction, sobriety and spirituality. He has lectured at UCLA, performed at the 2020 National Beat Poetry Festival and Mystic Boxing Commission Festival of Sound and Vision, read with 2013 US Presidential Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco, Michael C. Ford, S.A. Griffin, Ellyn Maybe, among others. His Beat poetry is anthologized alongside Ferlinghetti, Hirschman, Ford, Coleman and weiss (Sparring Omnibus, Mystic Boxing Commission; December 31, 2020). He hosts the poetry podcast “Assiduous Dust,” writes the weekly Incentovise column for Oddball Magazine and teaches poetry to neurodiverse individuals and autistic addicts in recovery at The Miracle Project, an autism nonprofit. Corwin’s collaborative collection A Double Meaning, with David Dephy, is seeking publication. He also has forthcoming collaborative poetry projects with Ellyn Maybe including Ghosts Sing into the World’s Ear (Ghost Accordion series 1st Wave, Mystic Boxing Commission). Corwin is the editor and compiler of Assiduous Dust: Home of the OTSCP, Vol. 1 (April 5, 2021) featuring 36 award-winning poets, all demonstrating a new type of found poem (OTSCP) he invented. Corwin is currently working on a philosophical novel about a man plagued with thoughts of suicide. For more information, please visit www.joshuacorwin.com [2].

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Favorite authors: 
Leo Tolstoy, Hermann Hesse, Alan Watts, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, Friedrich Nietzsche, David Dephy, Ellyn Maybe, George Orwell, Ibn Arabi, Gregory Corso, Daniel Dennett, Jonathan Haidt, David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon
Born in: 
Los Angeles, CA
California
Website: 
https://www.joshuacorwin.com [3]
Prizes won: 
  • 2021 San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival Book Contest (2nd place, finalist)
  • 2021 Spillwords Press Award for Poetic Publication of the Year
  • 2020 Palette Poetry Spotlight Award (longlist)
  • Spillwords Press Publication of the Month (August 2020)
  • 2021 Pushcart Prize nominee
  • 2021 Best of the Net nominee
  • 2020 Pushcart Prize nominee
What I'm reading now: 
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus
Walden and Other Writings by Henry David Thoreau
The Book: On the taboo against knowing who you are by Alan Watts
Identifies as: 
Other
Prefers to work with: 
Any
At Risk Youth
Mental Health
Schools
Teachers

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[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/joshua_corwin [2] http://www.joshuacorwin.com [3] https://www.joshuacorwin.com