Regie Cabico

Regie Cabico is a Filipino American poet and spoken word theater artist. Cabico’s first book of poetry, A Rabbit in Search of a Rolex and Other Hyperboles, Mysteries, Parables and Fantasias, was published by Day Eight in 2023. He edited Super Stoked: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from the Capturing Fire Slam & Summit (Capturing Fire Press, 2018), and is the coeditor of Flicker & Spark: A Contemporary Anthology of Queer Poetry and Spoken Word (Lowbrow Press, 2013), which was nominated for a 2014 Lambda Literary Award.

Cabico’s work appears in more than thirty anthologies, including The Spoken Word Revolution (Sourcebooks, 2003); Chorus & The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1999); and Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café (Henry Holt and Company, 1994), edited by Miguel Algarín and Bob Holman.  

He is the first Asian American poet to win the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam in 1993, and later won top prizes in three National Poetry Slams. He has served as the youth program coordinator for the Split This Rock Poetry Festival, and has taught with Kennedy Center Arts Education, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Cabico serves as the interim executive director of A Gathering of the Tribes. He lives in New York City.