Edwin Torres (born 1958) is a Nuyorican performance poet. His work incorporates vocal and physical improvisation. He is the author of Ameriscopia, One Night: Poems for the Sleepy, Yes Thing No Thing, and several other poetic books. He also has produced recordings titled Oceano Rise, Novo, and Holy Kid. He is a member of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E school. in the chapter which dealt with the poetry slam community's response to 9/11, and his work has appeared in numerous anthologies such as Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry, and Heights of the Marvelous: A New York Anthology, among many others.

Other performances

Besides performing at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Torres has performed at the Guggenheim Museum, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the Museum of Modern Art, amongst other venues.

Written works

Torres' poems include:

  • "15 Minutes";
  • "Gigabyte Me - How Much Ram In Your Summer Of Love?";
  • "Lessering In Lessage";
  • "Lounging In The Age Of Aquarius";
  • "Mirror-Fucation";
  • "Mister Hay's Trippy Moebius";
  • "Peesacho";
  • "Terra Quad"

Torres' books include:

  • Ameriscopia
  • One Night: Poems for the Sleepy
  • Yes Thing No Thing
  • In the Function of External Circumstances
  • The PoPedology of an Ambient Language
  • Please
  • Onomalingua: noise songs and poetry
  • The All-Union Day of the Shock Worker
  • Fractured Humorous
  • Lung Poetry (chapbook)
  • I Hear Things People Haven't Really Said (chapbook)
  • SandHommĂ©NomadNo (chapbook)

See also

  • List of Puerto Rican writers
  • List of Puerto Ricans
  • Puerto Rican poetry
  • Puerto Rican literature

References