Rodrigo Toscano
@rodrigo-toscano.bsky.social
Poet, Rhetor, Dialogist. Author of eleven books. National Poetry Series. Best American Poetry. Best Experimental Poetry. Edwin Markham prize. Labor Institute. United Steelworkers. New Orleans Poetry Festival. The Splice reading series. rodrigotoscano.com
Grateful to have "Vibe Shift" in this issue of The Louisville Review. The sonnet is from a new upcoming collection of 100 sonnets, titled, "Stumbles & Surges". "Vibe Shift" is from the section, "Of Polis".
November 24, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Grateful to have "Vibe Shift" in this issue of The Louisville Review. The sonnet is from a new upcoming collection of 100 sonnets, titled, "Stumbles & Surges". "Vibe Shift" is from the section, "Of Polis".
Fine Print is a Baton Rouge-based zine with a solid footprint in New Orleans. I love zines that cover the home ground before flaring out.
So thankful they included my sonnet, “Kapitalismus" from my new manuscript (upcoming book!) "Stumbles & Surges (100 sonnets)"
So thankful they included my sonnet, “Kapitalismus" from my new manuscript (upcoming book!) "Stumbles & Surges (100 sonnets)"
November 3, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Fine Print is a Baton Rouge-based zine with a solid footprint in New Orleans. I love zines that cover the home ground before flaring out.
So thankful they included my sonnet, “Kapitalismus" from my new manuscript (upcoming book!) "Stumbles & Surges (100 sonnets)"
So thankful they included my sonnet, “Kapitalismus" from my new manuscript (upcoming book!) "Stumbles & Surges (100 sonnets)"
"Routines" and "Novella 14", two sonnets from my upcoming collection "Stumbles & Surges (100 sonnets by Rodrigo Toscano)". News on that in a couple of weeks. Thanks for reading!
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October 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"Routines" and "Novella 14", two sonnets from my upcoming collection "Stumbles & Surges (100 sonnets by Rodrigo Toscano)". News on that in a couple of weeks. Thanks for reading!
thegoodlifereview.com/issue-twenty...
thegoodlifereview.com/issue-twenty...
Greetings friends, this Friday and Saturday I'll be reading in Brooklyn and Manhattan. On Sunday, I'll be reading in Philadelphia. Hope to see you!
October 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Greetings friends, this Friday and Saturday I'll be reading in Brooklyn and Manhattan. On Sunday, I'll be reading in Philadelphia. Hope to see you!
Dear Friends!
My newest book from Omnidawn Books, written in Late Classical Toscanoese. Several freaked out, culturally hopeful readers have noted the book is reasonably intelligible to readers proficient in Late Empire American English.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
My newest book from Omnidawn Books, written in Late Classical Toscanoese. Several freaked out, culturally hopeful readers have noted the book is reasonably intelligible to readers proficient in Late Empire American English.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
October 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Dear Friends!
My newest book from Omnidawn Books, written in Late Classical Toscanoese. Several freaked out, culturally hopeful readers have noted the book is reasonably intelligible to readers proficient in Late Empire American English.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
My newest book from Omnidawn Books, written in Late Classical Toscanoese. Several freaked out, culturally hopeful readers have noted the book is reasonably intelligible to readers proficient in Late Empire American English.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
After a long day (three decades of days) I'm done with prodding brittle bureaucrats to add colors to their thinking besides their go-to black, white, and gray tones. Now, back to me pondering Bach fugues, and submitting my sonnets.
May 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
After a long day (three decades of days) I'm done with prodding brittle bureaucrats to add colors to their thinking besides their go-to black, white, and gray tones. Now, back to me pondering Bach fugues, and submitting my sonnets.
Like every single poet at AWP, I'll simply be shaking a few eery trees of the zeitgeist in total darkness. Enter this uncanny valley with us to see if we're indeed contemporaries or something else entirely.
March 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Like every single poet at AWP, I'll simply be shaking a few eery trees of the zeitgeist in total darkness. Enter this uncanny valley with us to see if we're indeed contemporaries or something else entirely.
There's so much historically charged debris flying around right now, only poetics can even begin to capture the storms slappin us around non-stop. Stay strong, peeps.
March 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
There's so much historically charged debris flying around right now, only poetics can even begin to capture the storms slappin us around non-stop. Stay strong, peeps.
2010 Chilean movie (in English), "Adentro y Afuera" (In and Out), with Cecilia Vicuña, Yusef Komunyakaa, Marie Howe, Bob Holman, Quincy Troupe, Laura Elrick, Rodrigo Toscano, and others.
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January 31, 2025 at 2:13 AM
2010 Chilean movie (in English), "Adentro y Afuera" (In and Out), with Cecilia Vicuña, Yusef Komunyakaa, Marie Howe, Bob Holman, Quincy Troupe, Laura Elrick, Rodrigo Toscano, and others.
cinechile.cl/pelicula/ade...
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MLA New Orleans visitors! We've got a great reading for you. Swing by. We start at 7 on the sharp side.
January 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
MLA New Orleans visitors! We've got a great reading for you. Swing by. We start at 7 on the sharp side.
Happy to have my poem, "Espectacularistas", in this Taylor Swift songs anthology. I'm interested in all things Early End of Empire: the ecstacy, the horror, the fancifulness, the historical churn of it all. Poems can act as filtration lenses to capture energies that are hard to detect.
November 24, 2024 at 1:18 PM
Happy to have my poem, "Espectacularistas", in this Taylor Swift songs anthology. I'm interested in all things Early End of Empire: the ecstacy, the horror, the fancifulness, the historical churn of it all. Poems can act as filtration lenses to capture energies that are hard to detect.
November 22, 2024 at 1:53 AM