Rodrigo Toscano
{{short description|American poet (born 1964)}}
{{COI|date=October 2024}}
Rodrigo Toscano (born 1964 in San Diego) is an Hispano Americano poet and labor and environmental activist. He has worked with the Labor Institute since 2000 as a director of national projects. He is also a lifelong amateur classical pianist.
Life
Originally from San Diego, California, Toscano lived in San Francisco from 1995 to 1999, and in Brooklyn, New York from 1999 to 2015.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=58J6YcsJuloC|title=The Best American Poetry 2004 & 2007: Series Editor David Lehman|last=Lehman|first=David|date=2004-09-14|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=9780743257572|language=en}} He works for the Labor Institute based in New York City, and lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.{{Cite web|url=http://www.upne.com/1-934200-18-2.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513045837/http://www.upne.com/1-934200-18-2.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=May 13, 2008|title = Brandeis University Press}} He has authored eleven poetry books and received multiple translations.
Awards
Works
=Poetry=
- Arbiter. Parenthesis. 1995.
- {{cite book| title=Partisans| publisher=O Books| year=1999| isbn=9781882022373}}
- {{cite book| title=The Disparities| publisher=Green Integer| year=2002| isbn=9781931243254}}
- {{cite book| title=Platform |publisher=Atelos| year=2003| isbn=9781891190155}}
- {{cite book| title=To Leveling Swerve| publisher=Krupskaya| year=2004| isbn=9781928650232}}
- {{cite book| title=Collapsible Poetics Theater| publisher=Fence Books| year=2008| isbn=9781934200186}}
- {{cite book| title=Deck of Deeds| publisher=Counterpath| year=2012| isbn=9781933996318}}
- {{cite book| title=Explosion Rocks Springfield| publisher=Fence Books| year=2016| isbn=9780986437342}}
- {{cite book| title=In Range| publisher=Counterpath| year=2019| isbn=9781933996738}}
- {{cite book| title=The Charm & The Dread| publisher=Fence Books| year=2022| isbn=9781944380229}}
- {{cite book| title=The Cut Point| publisher=Counterpath| year=2023| isbn=9781933996837}}
=Dialogues & Interviews=
- https://rodrigotoscano.com/interviews-dialogues/
=Anthologies=
- {{cite book|title=Resist Much / Obey Little|publisher=Dispatches Editions|year=2017|isbn=9781944682323|editor1=Anne Waldman|editor2=Nathaniel Mackey|editor3=Ruben Medina|editor4=Roberto Harrison|editor1-link=Anne Waldman|editor2-link=Nathaniel Mackey|editor3-link=Ruben Medina|editor4-link=Roberto Harrison}}
- {{cite book| title=Imagined Theatres | editor=Daniel Sack | editor-link=Daniel Sack | publisher=Palgrave | year=2017| isbn=9781138122048}}
- {{cite book| title=The Canary Island Connection: 60 Contemporary American Poets | editor=Manuel Brito | publisher=Zasterle | year=2017| isbn=9788487467509}}
- {{cite book| title=Viz. Inter-Arts: Interventions | editor=Roxanne Power | publisher=Viz. Inter-Arts | year=2016| isbn=9780978621520}}
- {{cite book| title=Best American Experimental Writing 2015 | editor=Douglas Kearney | publisher=Wesleyan | year=2015| isbn=9780819576071}}
- {{cite book| title=Angels of the Americlypse | editor1=Carmen Gimenez Smith|editor2=John Chavez| editor1-link=Carmen Gimenez Smith|editor2-link=John Chavez|publisher=Counterpath | year=2014| isbn=9781933996394}}
- {{cite book| title=Kindergarde: Avant-Garde Poems for Children | editor=Dana Teen Lomax | publisher=Black Radish Books | year=2013 | isbn=9780985083762}}
- {{cite book| title=The Sonnets (Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare) | editor1=Sharmila Cohen|editor2=Paul Legault | publisher=Night Boat Books / Telephone Books | year=2012| isbn=9781937658076}}
- {{cite book| title=Against Expression | editor=Craig Dworkin | editor-link=Craig Dworkin | publisher=Northwestern University Press | year=2011| isbn=9780810127111}}
- {{cite book | title=The Best of Fence (First 9 years) | editor=Rebecca Wolf | publisher=Fence Books | year=2009 | isbn=9781934200063 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/bestoffencefirst00wolf}}
- {{cite book| title=Voices Without Borders | editor=Robert L Giron | publisher=Gival Press | year=2009| isbn=9781928589433}}
- {{cite book| title=Malditos Latinos Malditos Sudacas | editor1=Monica de La Torre|editor2=Rocio Ceron|editor3=Cristián Gómez | editor1-link=Monica de La Torre|publisher=Ediciones el Billar de Lucrecia | year=2009| isbn=9786070021084}}
- {{cite book| title=Diasporic Avant Gardes | editor1=Barrett Watten|editor2=Carrie Noland|editor1-link=Barrett Watten|editor2-link=Carie Noland| publisher=Palgrave | year=2009| isbn=9781137087515}}
- {{cite book| title=The Noulipian Analects | editor=Teresa Carmody | publisher=Les Figues Press | year=2007| isbn=9781934254004}}
- {{cite book| title=Here Comes Everybody (an Anthology) | editor1=Lance Phillips|editor2=Geoffrey Gatza | publisher=Blaze VOX | year=2007| isbn=9781934289044}}
- {{cite book | title=Best American Poetry 2004 | editor=David Lehman, Lyn Hejinian | publisher=Scribner | year=2004 | isbn=0743257375 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/bestamericanpoet2004unse_j9k2}}
- {{cite book| title=War and Peace| editor=Leslie Scalapino| editor-link=Leslie Scalapino| publisher=O Books| year=2004| isbn=9781882022526}}
- {{cite book| title=In the Criminal's Cabinet: An anthology of poetry and fiction | editor1=Val Stevenson|editor2=Todd Swift| editor1-link=Val Stevenson|editor2-link=Todd Swift| publisher=Nth Position Press | year=2004| isbn=9780954626815}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://rodrigotoscano.com/}}
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