Joshua is also an artist, making light boxes and ink transfer/mixed media collages out of found materials that are included in numerous private collections.

In collaboration with the designer Roberto Ventura, he created light- and text-based installations that appeared in shows at Randolph Macon College’s Flippo Gallery, 1708 Gallery, and for Richmond, Virginia’s InLight, which won Best in Show, 2009, chosen by Adelina Vlas, Assistant Curator of Contemporary and Modern Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Originally from Hampstead, North Carolina, Joshua lives in Richmond, Virginia, where he is a copy editor/proofreader at The Martin Agency.

[2] Melanie Drane, at ForeWord Magazine, stated in May 2006: "Joshua Poteat's stunning début has received the Anhinga Prize for Poetry, selected by Campbell McGrath.

"[3] Mary Oliver, a judge for the 2004 Poetry Society of America's Chapbook Award, stated that: "It is a lyricism that reminds me of James Wright, and this I mean certainly as praise, when he employed, as I called it, an intensified vernacular—throwing me off my stride, gathering me to him by the detail of some earnest and often terrible beauty, in the easy language of our country with its sweet, oiled syntax…" [4] Darren Morris a book reviewer for Style Weekly said in 2006 that: "Be careful when reading Ornithologies by Joshua Poteat.