Joshua Rivkin is the author of two books, Suitor: Poems and Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly, a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and finalist for 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Slate, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Best New Poets. He lives in Salt Lake City, UT.

Other poems by Joshua Rivkin in Verse Daily:
March 3, 2005:  "Cartographic" "In maps of antiquity continents..."

Books by Joshua Rivkin:

Other poems on the web by Joshua Rivkin:
"At Night You Read To Me"
"Flood"
Two poems
Three poems
Two poems
Four poems
"The Next Row"

Joshua Rivkin's Website.

About Suitor:

"Unbeknownst to us, we have been awaiting a book like Joshua Rivkin's Suitor, a book for our times, of such astonishing candor and wicked, sharp seeing into the inscrutable nature of maleness in our times. Driven by a probing intellect, the poems here, principled in song, at once heartbreakingly unveil and render complex our current crisis of manhood, whose only resolution lies in such tender, focused, and incisive language. Reading this book, I assure you, will broadly awaken you to your own journey or someone sitting next to you, and then, that person next to them."
—Major Jackson

"For opulence of imagination and spareness of language, for musical savvy and analytical rigor, for a frankness that is both tender and unnerving in its nakedness, Joshua Rivkin's Suitor is one of the best books of poetry, let alone first books, that I've read in a very long time. His prose meditation about his father and the moral culpability of the scientist, his lyrics about sex as a blueprint of the psyche, and his nuanced understanding of how children and parents create the story under the story of our civilization, is mature, formally masterful, and refreshingly free of moralizing cant, blame, or the desire to shame. Best of all, for all its tough-minded skepticism, it's a book replete with an undeluded hopefulness."
—Tom Sleigh