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Mónica de la Torre

Mónica de la Torre is the author of four poetry collections, and of The Happy End, published by The Song Cave in 2014. She’s senior editor at BOMB Magazine and teaches in the writing program at Columbia University.

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Poetry

A whole body becomes no body.
A nobody becomes a body of earth.

I was a ruled body
with lines wide enough to write between.

2017 Poetry Contest Winner: Mia Kang

Mónica de la Torre, Mia Kang

Poetry

Response to Race and the Poetic Avant-Garde

Editors' Note: This essay is one of a group of essays on Race and the Poetic Avant-Garde. Read

Mónica de la Torre

Poetry

Poet's Sampler: Blair Johnson

“Stuck in can’t-think static. Hitting a wall. Blank. Stuck.” Who hasn’t experienced that

Mónica de la Torre

Poetry

Poems of Depth

for Gerardo Deniz, based on his "20,000 Places Under Our Mothers," based on Jules Verne’s 20,000

Mónica de la Torre

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