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Edwin Torres (b. 1957 New York) is a spoken word artist of Puerto Rican descent who travelled the world with the legendary “Nuyorican Poets Cafe Live” collective. Alongside his own individual work, he works continually with other artists. Torres’s work combines performative spoken word poetry with sound poetry and use of the body, sound elements and theatre. He has won numerous scholarships, above all from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Foundation For Contemporary Performance Art. His works have appeared in journals and anthologies, while his CD “Holy Kid” was part of the “The American Century Pt. II” exhibition. Torres founded the “non-movement” NORICUA, with whom he performed in the Bronx and Berlin, among other places, and disseminated “non-ideologies”. He was also co-publisher of the highly acclaimed poetry DVD “Rattapallax”.
Publications:
I Hear Things People Haven't Really Said, Onomalingua (Rattappalax Press, 1991)
Fractured Humorous (Subpress, 1999)
The All-Union Day Of The Shock Worker (Roof Books, 2001)
Please (Faux Press, 2002)
The PoPedology Of An Ambient Language (Atelos Books, 2007)