Rodrigo Toscano

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Rodrigo Toscano is an experimental poet, dialogist, essayist, and a labor and environmental activist. He is the author of twelve books, including WHITMAN. CANNONBALL. PUEBLA. (Omnidawn, 2025), and 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.