The
Hudson Valley Writers' Center presents a reading by
Edwin Torres
Sunday, September 24, 2006, 4:30 pm
Edwin
Torres (www.brainlingo.com)
has collaborated frequently with a wide range of artists creating interdisciplinary
performances which intermingle the textures of sound, theater and improvisation
into his poetry. From 1993-1997 he belonged to the poetry collective,
Nuyorican Poets Cafe Live, which spearheaded the spoken word movement
in the nineties and traveled across the U. S. and overseas.
His poetry fellowships include ones from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art, and he has taught at Naropa University, Bard College and The St. Mark's Poetry Project and elsewhere. He is included in The Best American Poetry 2004 (Scribner) and his releases include the books The All-Union Day Of The Shock Worker (Roof Books), Fractured Humorous (Subpress), and the CDs Holy Kid (Kill Rock Stars) and Novo (OozeBap.org).
He was writer-in-residence at The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council this past year and he is a co-editor of the poetry journal, Rattapallax (www.rattapallax.com). His next poetry collection, In the Function of External Circumstances, is forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil Press in 2006. He was born and lives in New York City.
Introduction by Patricia Smith, four-time National Slam Champion.
Suggested Donation: $5 ($3 for HVWC members and those under age 18)
Programs and events at The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center are made possible, in part, by grants from the Bydale Foundation, the David G. Taft Foundation, the Orchard Foundation, and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and by the Basic Program Support Grant of the Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government.