Mónica De la Torre - Strictly Alimentary: Beckett, Paz, and the Mysteries of the UNESCO Mexican Poetry Anthology

Mónica de la Torre’s most recent book of poems and experimental translations is Repetition Nineteen (Nightboat). Other collections include The Happy End/All Welcome (Ugly Duckling Presse)—a riff on a riff on Kafka’s Amerika—and Public Domain (Roof Books). With Alex Balgiu, she coedited the international anthology Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–79 (Primary Information). She has translated Gerardo Deniz, Amanda Berenguer, Omar Cáceres, and numerous other poets from the Spanish. A recipient of a 2022 Creative Capital grant and the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts C.D. Wright Award for Poetry, she teaches poetry at Brooklyn College. A new collection, Pause the Document, is forthcoming from Nightboat in March 2025.