Joshua Garcia

Joshua Garcia’s poetry appears or is forthcoming in Arts & Letters, Massachusetts Review, Poet Lore, The Shore, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the College of Charleston and is a 2021-22 Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University.

Reading List

Some Theory

Joshua Garcia  | 
Issue 71.1 Fall 2022

after Carrie Mae Weems Often my anger spins off and leaves me in a tired trail of smoke. In therapy, I list my 12 most painful memories; 13 are based on an interpretation of a text. You can tell a lot about a person by which translation of the bible they used to hide […]

Preparing for a Colonoscopy, Election Day, 2020

Joshua Garcia  | 
Issue 71.1 Fall 2022

Running a last errand, I float into the post office wearing purple socks like a devil who carries his erections around in a bright red handbag. In line, a man interrupts me to say, You need to put some bass in your voice, as if we are not all tiptoeing on the light that […]