Joshua David Lickteig

Joshua Lickteig is a poet and senior engineer for a technology organization. He holds a Master of Science in Management of Information Systems from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His work has appeared in Jubilat (University of Massachusetts) and various Milwaukee presses. His first book of poetry, ‘In the Belling Stillness,’ was published in 2011. Poems from his latest book, ‘Ten Control Mills,’ were recently performed in Don Russell’s 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.” His next book, ‘Rigged In Kings,’ will be published through Ypte Press.