Joel Peckham has published eleven collections of poetry and nonfiction, including Any Moonwalker Can Tell You: new and selected poems (SFA), Gone the Sun (UnCollected Press), and Body Memory (New Rivers), and is co-editor of the anthology Wild Gods: The Ecstatic in American Poetry and Prose. Individual poems and essays have appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, The Sun, and many others. In 2021 he was the winner of the Southern Review’s Oran Robert Perry Burke Award for Poetry. That year Bone Music was named to Kirkus Review’s list of best books and was the winner of the International Book Award in the general poetry category. His first Spoken Word LP, Still Running: Words and Music by Joel Peckham, appeared from EAT POEMS in the fall of 2022 and is now available at all major streaming platforms.

 

Peckham’s collection, Bone Music won the International Book Award in the category of poetry in 2022. That year, he was also the winner of the Southern Review’s Oran Robert Perry Burke Award for Poetry for his poem, Astrocartography.

 

He is an associate professor of American Literature and Creative Writing at Marshall University