Rodrigo Toscano

Rodrigo Toscano  (born 1964 in San Diego) is an American poet and labor & environment activist. He has worked with the Labor Institute since 2000 as a director of national projects. He is also a lifelong amateur classical pianist.

Life
Originally from San Diego, California, Toscano lived in San Francisco from 1995 to 1999, and in Brooklyn, New York from 1999 to 2015. He works for the Labor Institute based in New York City, and lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Dissatisfied with formal schooling, Toscano is self-educated: "on my own, I was always reading philosophy or poetry or politics or history." While in San Francisco, he helped organize the Labor Party and along with Alan Benjamin, he co-edited the Golden Gate Labor Party newsletter.

Awards

 * 2019 Edwin Markham prize for poetry
 * 2007 National Poetry Series
 * 2005 New York State Fellowship in Poetry
 * 2005 Fund for Poetry
 * 1998 Fund for Poetry

Poetry

 * Arbiter . Parenthesis. 1995.

Dialogues & Interviews
https://rodrigotoscano.com/interviews-dialogues/