Joseph Ross

Poet

Silver Spring, MD

Maryland US

Email:

writingalife@yahoo.com

Website:

www.JosephRoss.net

Author's Bio

I am a Washington, D.C. poet & author of two collections of poetry: Meeting Bone Man (2012) and Gospel of Dust, (2013). My work has appeared in many journals and anthologies. I co-edited "Cut Loose the Body: An Anthology of Poems on Torture and Fernando Botero's Abu Ghraib."

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

This Assignment Is So Gay (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2013)

Collective Brightness (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2012)

Full Moon on K Street (Plan B Press, 2010)

Poetic Voices Without Borders 2 (Gival Press, 2009)

Come Together Imagine Peace (Bottom Dog Press, 2008)

DC Poets Against the War (Argonne House Press, 2004)

Books:

Gospel of Dust (Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2013)

Meeting Bone Man (Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2012)

Journals:

Beltway Poetry Quarterly

Drumvoices Revue

Out of Line

Poet Lore

Prizes won:

Pratt Library/Little Patuxent Review Poetry Prize Winner, 2012

Pushcart Prize Nominee, 2010, 2011, 2012

I have read at the Library of Congress' Poetry-at-Noon Series in 2009 and 2010, at the Folger Shakespeare Library in 2013.

Best of the Net Nominee, 2008

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Pomona

Raised in:

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Last update: Jun 07, 2013