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JOSEPH KERSCHBAUM has published 4 books of poetry and 2 spoken word albums. He has been a featured performer at festivals such as the Bucktown Arts Fest, the Etheridge Knight Festival of the Arts, as well as Heartland Incantations, a reading series that celebrates Hoosier poets. He has been the captain of the Bloomington Poetry Slam team (the Pie Cutters) and competed in the Midwest Poetry Slam League. He was awarded Greer Foundation Fellowship from the Bloomington Area Arts Council in 2007 for completion of his book Dead Stars Have No Graves. Joseph has also been awarded an Individual Artistic Grant from the Indiana Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts. Kerschbaum has appeared in Bathtub Gin, Arsenic Lobster, Stirring, Facets, Poetry Motel, Eclipse, Stray Dog, Tipton Poetry Journal, Red River Review, Ward 6 Review, Catalyzer, and Failbetter . He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and was a finalist for the Ruth Lilly Endowment from the Poetry Foundation. from Lost Exists (the waves are air) There is a house by the sea. All the rooms with a view are gone now. First, the closets disappeared. One morning the kitchen doorway vanished like a healed wound. Not even a scar. Then the rest of the house started to consume itself. Swallowing its own tongue. A labyrinth with no beginning or end. There is tapping, sounds like a tooth against a window, or the leaky faucet in the basement. A woman roams the swallowing corridors. She has a pocket full of keys that have lost their locks. Useless metal trinkets. She sleeps like a bloodless limb