Rodrigo Toscano | Publications

 

Bio

Rodrigo Toscano is the author of To Leveling Swerve, Platform, The Disparities, and Partisans.  His newest book, Collapsible Poetics Theater was a National Poetry Series 2007 winner. His poetry has appeared Best American Poetry 2004, War and Peace (2004 & 2007), and in the Criminal's Cabinet: An anthology of poetry and fiction (2004), and in McSweeny’s “Poets Picking Poets”. He was a 2005 recipient of a New York State Fellowship in Poetry. Toscano is also the artistic director and writer for the Collapsible Poetics Theater (CPT).  His polyvocalic pieces, poetics plays, and body-movement poems, have been performed at the Disney Redcat Theater in Los Angeles, Ontological-Hysteric Poet’s Theater Festival, Poet's Theater Jamboree 2007, Links Hall Chicago, and the Yockadot Poetics Theater Festival. His radio pieces have appeared on WPIX FM (New York), KAOS Public Radio Olympia, WFMU, WNYU, and PS.1 Radio. His work has been translated into French, German, Italian, and Catalonian. Toscano is originally from Southern California. He works in Manhattan at the Labor Institute, and lives in Brooklyn.

Readings & Lectures

Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles

Evergreen State University, WA

King Juan Carlos Center, NYU

University of California, Irvine

California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles

University of California, San Diego

Otis Center for the Arts, Los Angeles

Socialist Scholars Conference, NYC

Georgetown University

The Kelly's Writer's House, University of Pennsylvania

Wayne State University, MI

The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, NYC

The Drawing Center, NYC

Bennington College, VT

The Nuyorican Poets Café

Small Press Traffic, San Francisco, CA

Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA

Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

San Francisco State University

The Ear Inn, NYC

San Francisco Center for the Arts

State University of New York at Buffalo

The Book Arts Center, NYC

New Langton Arts Center

The White Box Gallery, NYC

Voz Alta Literary Performance Space

New York University, NY

POG Poetry Foundation, Tuscon, AZ

Bard University, NY

In Your Ear reading Series, Washington DC

Yale University

Mills College, Oakland

Terra Incognita Reading Series, NY

Wordsworth Books, Cambridge, MA

San Diego Poetry Guild

West End Reading Series, Ithaca, NY

Myopic Bookstore Poetry Series, Chicago

Other Publications

62 Unità di prosa scritte da malato (Archipelago Edizioni, 2005), Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement (Palgrave Macmillan) Best American Poetry 2004 (Scribners), War and Peace (O Books), An Anthology of Poetry and Fiction (nthosition), Perspektive 43+44: Avantgarde Under Net Conditions (Germany), Kenning Audio Editions, The Noulipian Analects (Les Figues Press, 2007), Poetic Voices Without Borders (Gival Press, 2008)

 

 

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