Joseph Kerschbaum has performed at numerous venues around the country. 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. Joseph has also been a featured guest on such radio shows as WFHB's 'A Poet's Weave' as well NPR's 'A Linen Weave of Poets'.

In September, 2005 Joseph was awarded the Greer Foundation Fellowship for Creative Writing from the Bloomington Area Arts Council for completion of his book Dead Stars Have No Graves. Joseph was awarded an Individual Artistic Grant from The Indiana Arts Commission and The National Endowment for the Arts in June, 2006.

A number of his poems have appeared in journals and magazines around the country (Bathtub Gin, Arsenic Lobster, Stirring, Facets, Poetry Motel, Eclipse, Stray Dog, Tipton Poetry Journal, Red River Review, Ward 6 Review, Catalyzer, Failbetter). In 2005 Joseph was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Joseph is currently on faculty with the John Waldron Arts Center.

Publications include:

Our Voices Sound Like Silence
Spoken word CD.
Released: November, 2007

Dead Stars Have No Graves
Chapbook containing one book-length poem.
Released: April, 2006 from Pathwise Press

The Composer Steps into the Fire
Full-length collection of poems.
Released: September, 2004

1 of 29
Spoken word CD.
Released: August, 2003

The Human Remains
Full-length collection of poems.
Released: October, 2002