Rodrigo Toscano Explained

Rodrigo Toscano (born 1964 in San Diego) is an American poet and labor & environment 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.^[1] He works for the Labor Institute based in New York City, and lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.^[2]

Dissatisfied with formal schooling, Toscano is self-educated: "on my own, I was always reading philosophy or poetry or politics or history." While in San Francisco, he helped organize the Labor Party and along with Alan Benjamin, he co-edited the Golden Gate Labor Party newsletter.^[3]

Awards

2019 Edwin Markham prize for poetry
2007 National Poetry Series
2005 New York State Fellowship in Poetry
2005 Fund for Poetry
1998 Fund for Poetry

Works

Poetry

Arbiter. Parenthesis. 1995.
Book: Partisans. O Books. 1999. 978-1-882-02237-3 .
Book: The Disparities. Green Integer. 2002. 978-1-931243-25-4 .
Book: Platform . Atelos. 2003. 978-1-891190-15-5 .
Book: To Leveling Swerve. Krupskaya. 2004. 978-1-928650-23-2 .
Book: Collapsible Poetics Theater. Fence Books. 2008. 978-1-934200-18-6 .
Book: Deck of Deeds. Counterpath. 2012. 978-1933996-31-8 .
Book: Explosion Rocks Springfield. Fence Books. 2016. 978-0-9864373-4-2 .
Book: In Range. Counterpath. 2019. 978-1-93-399673-8 .
Book: The Charm & The Dread. Fence Books. 2022. 978-1944380229 .
Book: The Cut Point. Counterpath. 2023. 978-1-93-399683-7 .

Dialogues & Interviews

https://rodrigotoscano.com/interviews-dialogues/

Anthologies

Book: Resist Much / Obey Little. Dispatches Editions. 2017. 978-1-944682-32-3. Anne Waldman. Nathaniel Mackey. Ruben Medina. Roberto Harrison. Anne Waldman. Nathaniel Mackey. Ruben Medina. Roberto Harrison.
Book: Imagined Theatres . Daniel Sack . Daniel Sack . Palgrave . 2017. 978-1138122048 .
Book: The Canary Island Connection: 60 Contemporary American Poets . Manuel Brito . Zasterle . 2017. 978-84-87467-50-9 .
Book: Viz. Inter-Arts: Interventions . Roxanne Power . Viz. Inter-Arts . 2016. 978-0-9786215-2-0 .
Book: Best American Experimental Writing 2015 . Douglas Kearney . Wesleyan . 2015. 978-0-8195-7607-1 .
Book: Angels of the Americlypse . Carmen Gimenez Smith. John Chavez. Carmen Gimenez Smith. John Chavez. Counterpath . 2014. 978-1933996-39-4 .
Book: Kindergarde: Avant-Garde Poems for Children . Dana Teen Lomax . Black Radish Books . 2013 . 978-0-9850837-6-2 .
Book: The Sonnets (Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare) . Sharmila Cohen. Paul Legault . Night Boat Books / Telephone Books . 2012. 978-1937658076 .
Book: Against Expression . Craig Dworkin . Craig Dworkin . Northwestern University Press . 2011. 978-0-8101-2711-1 .
Book: The Best of Fence (First 9 years) . Rebecca Wolf . Fence Books . 2009 . 978-1-934200-06-3 . registration .
Book: Voices Without Borders . Robert L Giron . Gival Press . 2009. 978-1928589433 .
Book: Malditos Latinos Malditos Sudacas . Monica de La Torre. Rocio Ceron. Cristián Gómez . Monica de La Torre. Ediciones el Billar de Lucrecia . 2009. 978-607-00-2108-4 .
Book: Diasporic Avant Gardes . Barrett Watten. Carrie Noland. Barrett Watten. Carie Noland. Palgrave . 2009. 978-1-137-08751-5 .
Book: The Noulipian Analects . Teresa Carmody . Les Figues Press . 2007. 978-1-934254-00-4 .
Book: Here Comes Everybody (an Anthology) . Lance Phillips. Geoffrey Gatza . Blaze VOX . 2007. 978-1-934289-04-4 .
Book: Best American Poetry 2004 . . Scribner . 2004 . 0-7432-5737-5 . registration .
Book: War and Peace. Leslie Scalapino. Leslie Scalapino. O Books. 2004. 978-1-882022-52-6 .
Book: In the Criminal's Cabinet: An anthology of poetry and fiction . Val Stevenson. Todd Swift. Val Stevenson. Todd Swift. Nth Position Press . 2004. 978-0954626815 .

External links

Notes and References

Book: Lehman, David. The Best American Poetry 2004: Series Editor David Lehman. 2004-09-14. Simon and Schuster. 9780743257572. en.
Web site: Brandeis University Press.
Web site: Boog . Jason . Lives of the Poets: Rodrigo Toscano . Poetry Foundation . Poetry Foundation . 6 April 2023 . 19 August 2009.