Joshua David Lickteig
poet, Artist, and engineer in Portland, Oregon
Joshua D. Lickteig was born near Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
His latest books are Half Moon Day Sun (2021) and Ten Control Mills (2015), some poems from which appeared in Don Russell’s plays Dreams of Drowning (2022) and iTopia (2016). His first book of poetry, In the Belling Stillness, was published in 2011.
His work has appeared in Jubilat (University of Massachusetts) and various Milwaukee presses. Poems from Ten Control Mills were performed original one-act play iTopia through Cooperative Performance Milwaukee, a company of which he is an artist member. The Journal Sentinel has called his poems “playful, quirky and smart; they're also alive to tactile experience and the natural world in ways [we want] to be and we now often aren't.” Examiner calls his work “language poetry.. that, in its nonlinear way, speaks of human longings in a multifarious universe.”
He is an ongoing contributor to the Concordia News and writes classical music performance reviews for Northwest Reverb.