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EDWIN TORRES is the author of twelve poetry collections, including The Animal's Perception of Earth (DoubleCross Press), Xoeteox: the infinite word object (Wave), Ameriscopia (University of Arizona Press), Yes Thing No Thing (Roof Books) and editor of The Body In Language: An Anthology (Counterpath Press). He has received fellowships from, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts, The DIA Foundation, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, among others. He has performed his bodylingo poetics worldwide, his visual text and audio works have been exhibited widely and he has collaborated with many artists incorporating homemade sound objects with digital and concrete poetics. He's taught his workshops, Brainlingo and Feel Recordings at UPenn, Naropa University, The Poetry Project and Liminal Lab. Anthologies include, Fractured Ecologies, Who Will Speak For America, Post Modern American Poetry Vol 2, Angels of The Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing, American Poets In The 21st Century: Poetics of Social Engagement, Kindergarde: Avant Garde Poems For Children, and Aloud: Voices From The Nuyorican Poets Café. A native New Yorker, emerging out of the Lower East Side, he is currently living in Beacon, NY. His next collection, Quanundrum: I will be your many angled thing is forthcoming from Roof Books.