ADVENTURES WHILE PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF BEAUTY

After their Fall 2002 whirlwind tour supporting their book of collaborative poems, Nice Hat. Thanks, these acclaimed poets return with a collection of the finest new poems created live as they rambled high and low. Covering such topics as hillbillies, baseball, capitalism, paradise, fruit, spy satellites, and more, the CD is an uproarious and continually surprising audio record of two vivid imaginations working overtime for audiences in no less than 19 states.

Joshua Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut. His previous books include Your Time Has Come, and two collaborations with Matthew Rohrer. He lives in Seattle and New York. Matthew Rohrer was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and grew up in Oklahoma. He attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, University College Dublin, and the University of Michigan, where he won the Avery Hopwood Award for poetry. His first book, A Hummock in the Malookas, was a winner of the National Poetry Series and chosen as a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1995. Mary Oliver called his work ＂beautiful and disquieting,＂ and Harvard Review notes that his poems are ＂everywhere marked by freshness and originality.＂ He has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered - The Book Show, and is a poetry editor of Fence.