Rodrigo Toscano
Rodrigo Toscano is the author of To Leveling Swerve, Platform, The Disparities, and Partisans. His new book, Collapsible Poetics Theater, was a National Poetry Series selection for 2008. His poetry has appeared in Best American Poetry 2004, McSweeny’s Poets Picking Poets, War and Peace Anthology and In the Criminal's Cabinet, and in Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement. He was a 2005 recipient of a New York State Fellowship in Poetry. Toscano is also the writer and artistic coordinator for the Collapsible Poetics Theater (CPT). His experimental poetics plays, body movement poems, polyvocalic pieces have recently been performed at the Disney Redcat Theater in Los Angeles, Ontological-Hysteric Poet’s Theater Festival, New Langton Arts Space (San Francisco), Yockadot Poetics Theater Festival (Alexandria, Virginia), KSW Vancouver, Canada, Links Hall (Chicago), Teubingen University, Germany, and Poet’s Theater Jamboree 2007 (California Center for the Arts, San Francisco). His radio poetics pieces have appeared on WPIX FM (New York), KAOS Radio Olympia, WFMU, and PS.1 Radio (New York). His writing has been translated into French, German, Spanish, and Italian. Toscano is originally from San Diego, California. He has been based in Brooklyn for the last 10 years, and works in Manhattan at the Labor Institute.
Links
Collapsible Poetics Theater (CPT) Pictures
Collapsible Poetics Theater on blip.tv
Rodrigo Toscano's Electronic Poetry Center (EPC Buffalo) page