Rodrigo Toscano

Rodrigo Toscano is an experimental poet, dialogist, essayist, and a labor and environmental activist. He is the author of thirteen books of poetry, including Salvage Nation: One Hundred Sonnets (Winter Editions, 2026); WHITMAN. CANNONBALL. PUEBLA. (Omnidawn, 2025); The Cut Point (Counterpath, 2023); and Collapsible Poetics Theater (Fence Books, 2008), which was selected for the National Poetry Series.

Toscano was the recipient of a New York State Fellowship in Poetry, and he won the Edwin Markham Prize for Poetry in 2019. He lives in New Orleans.