RODRIGO TOSCANO
reading
Wednesday, April 14
7 pm
Mills Hall 322
free and open to the public
Rodrigo Toscano was born in San Diego, CA in 1964. He lived there until the age of 29 (with the exception of a year's sojourn in the deserts of the southwest as a truck driver). In 1995 he moved to the bay area and lived there for four years, where he worked as a social worker and labor activist. During this time he co-founded Krupskaya Press with Jocelyn Saidenberg and Hung Q. Tu. He then moved to Brooklyn (Greenpoint) with the poet and essayist Laura Elrick, where he currently lives. He works at the Labor Institute in Manhattan, and continues to carouse with, stimulate, infuriate, and sometimes stump his many compeers (himself included) and the several interlopers who happen upon poetry readings the reason for which he continues to sequence words, and to declaim those sequences in public. He is the author of Platform (Atelos P, 2003), The Disparities (Green Integer, 2002), and Partisans (O Books, 1999). Jules Boykoff calls Platform a “politico-poetic trajectory, a multi-layered, polyvalent, multidimensional, multilingual tour de force that confronts Capital at every turn.”
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21-Apr renee gladman
reading
Wednesday, April 14
7 pm
Mills Hall 322
free and open to the public
Rodrigo Toscano was born in San Diego, CA in 1964. He lived there until the age of 29 (with the exception of a year's sojourn in the deserts of the southwest as a truck driver). In 1995 he moved to the bay area and lived there for four years, where he worked as a social worker and labor activist. During this time he co-founded Krupskaya Press with Jocelyn Saidenberg and Hung Q. Tu. He then moved to Brooklyn (Greenpoint) with the poet and essayist Laura Elrick, where he currently lives. He works at the Labor Institute in Manhattan, and continues to carouse with, stimulate, infuriate, and sometimes stump his many compeers (himself included) and the several interlopers who happen upon poetry readings the reason for which he continues to sequence words, and to declaim those sequences in public. He is the author of Platform (Atelos P, 2003), The Disparities (Green Integer, 2002), and Partisans (O Books, 1999). Jules Boykoff calls Platform a “politico-poetic trajectory, a multi-layered, polyvalent, multidimensional, multilingual tour de force that confronts Capital at every turn.”
forthcoming talks/readings/discussions/workshops by oakland associated writers...
21-Apr renee gladman
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