Selections from the award winning poetry book STEREO.ISLAND. MOSAIC. by Vincent Toro. Published by Ahsahta Press, 2016. 

Poems performed by the author. 

Recorded at Naropa University- The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Boulder, Colorado, on June 15th, 2018.

Recorded and engineered by Ambrose Bye.

For Jean - Michel Basquiat

The Block

The Roads Of Borinquen

From Toro's second book of poetry, "Tertulia." Recorded at Naropa University, June 2018. Produced by Ambrose Bye.

LatinXfuturist CodeXotica

From Toro's second collection, "Tertulia." Record at Naropa University, June 2018. Produced by Ambrose Bye.

DREAMcatcher

Spoken Word piece originally written and performed way back in 2004. Record here at Naropa University, June 2018. Produced by Ambrose Bye.

13 Ways of Looking at Hip Hop

Vincent Toro is a Puerto Rican poet, playwright, director, and educator. He is the author of “STEREO.ISLAND.MOSAIC.,” which was awarded the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award and the Sawtooth Poetry Prize. He is also winner of the Spanish Repertory Theater’s Nuestras Voces Playwriting Award, and is a former Poet’s House Emerging Poets Fellow and a New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellow. His work has been published in dozens of magazines and journals, including Washington Square, BOAAT, Rattle, Vinyl, The Acentos Review, The Buenos Aires Review, Chiricu Journal of Latino/a Literatures, and Best American Experimental Writing 2015.  Vincent is director of the Saturday Program at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, a professor of English at Bronx Community College, and a Dodge Foundation poet. He is a contributing editor at Kweli Literary Journal. “Tertulia,” is Vincent’s second collection of poems.