Joshua D. Graber

Hi I'm Joshua. I currently work as a writer, editor, and software engineer, with a career that has spanned writing, tech, and education. Along the way, I've also worked as a professor, activist, tutor, bartender, landscaper, farm worker, and dishwasher.

Learn more about my writing, editing, and software work.

Experiments

Experiments in digital poetics and programming

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  Wheel Poem Experiment

  Generate aleatory poetry by distributing any text across spinning concentric wheels.

Recent fragments

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  collage-from-life-sept-1940

  Collage with a life magazine and miscellaneous photos
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  A few winter collages with flowers

  Dried rose petals and some fine paper from an old magazine
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  In praise of: the em dash

  Robots, you can’t have it
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  How to stop worrying and love the poem

  The robot builds a bomb, with instructions in iambic pentameter

Recent publications

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  www.post-gazette.com

  Joshua D. Graber: A plant-based trip with Michael Pollan

  When Michael Pollan’s latest book, “A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness,” arrived in my mailbox, I texted a friend who loves...

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  www.post-gazette.com

  Review: The muses of Andy Warhol

  “I find women more interesting than men,” Laurence Leamer told me last month when we caught up. Leamer was in Pittsburgh to promote “Warhol’s...

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  www.theadroitjournal.org

  A Review of Alex Higley’s True Failure

  In 1997, during the first wave of a reality TV deluge that remains ongoing, a cast member of MTV’s Road Rules named Holly spoke about the nickname her cast used for the crew: “Big Brother.” Holly s…

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  www.post-gazette.com

  Review: Mara Van Der Lugt on the mo­ral­ity of hav­ing chil­dren

  A few years ago, a healthy, professedly happy Mumbai businessman named Raphael Samuel publicly threatened to sue his parents — both lawyers —...