Monica de la Torre

Mónica de la Torre is the author of six books of poetry, of which the most recent, Repetition Nineteen (Nightboat), centers on experimental translation. Other collections include The Happy End/All Welcome (Ugly Duckling Presse)—a riff on a riff on Kafka's Amerika—and Public Domain. Several of her books have been published in Mexico, among them Acúfenos and Taller de Taquimecanografía, written jointly with the eponymous women artists' collective she cofounded. Recent art writing focuses on Cecilia Vicuña’s Palabrarmas series, Felix Gonzalez-Torres's Photostats, Ulises Carrión's Bookworks and Beyond, Lucy Raven's Ready Mix, and Katherine Hubbard's photo-based performances. She coedited Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–79 (Primary Information). She is the recipient of the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts C.D. Wright Award for Poetry and a 2022 Creative Capital grant and teaches poetry at Brooklyn College.