He served as the writing coordinator at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and as a visiting assistant professor at Northwestern University.

He lives in Washington, D.C.,[1] with his wife, the novelist Sarah Blake, and two sons, and teaches literature and poetry workshops at University of Maryland, College Park, where he is Professor of English.

I've always been impressed by Joshua Weiner's formal intelligence and his sure knowledge of how to make a poem.

He's learned as much from Mina Loy, Robert Duncan, and Tom McGrath as he has from Thom Gunn, Thomas Hardy, and George Herbert.

Like the modernists, he's embraced the past, but unlike some of them, he's alert to the formal possibilities lurking in popular culture.