I don't need poets playing at being political pundits on this app, I need to see their poetic works with the cultural-ideological downstream effects of their alleged politics skillfully woven in there. But alas, it's mainly "hot take" tweets paired with flat, normie poetry.

Dialectical materialist poetics lives by engaging ideological contradiction. The logic, the wit, the quirkiness of it flows from there. It is implicitly an affront to slop academic liberalism and its "I"-centered ritualisms. It has fresh surge potential, and thus, enemies galore.

Three from Salvage Nation: 100 Sonnets (pre-order from Winter Editions, November, 2026) (flip phone for best viewing) bulbregion.com/Three-Poems-...

Three Poems, by Rodrigo Toscano — The Bulb Region

Three Poems — Rodrigo Toscano Earthly Mood “Perhaps a million years that rock,...

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Grateful to be given the opportunity to contribute "Ceasefires" and "It's Sunday", two poems from my new collection, Salvage Nation: 100 Sonnets (Winter Editions, 2026). Thank you to the editors!

This epistle written in 8-syllable couplets is a blend of a lighthearted homage to the New Orleans poetry scene, a stern critique of Louisiana politics, and a rather earnest, albeit imaginary outreach to poets in Shenzhen, China. poems.com/poem/poets-o...

Poets of Shenzhen

Good morning poets of Shenzhen! whoever you are (we’ve no clue).

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Anti-Marxism is still at the root of contemporary American Poetry: perennial decay with evermore elaborate schemes to rebolster Liberal Capitalist Culture. From vainglorious "avant guardes" to the reign of stifling "I"-centered consumerist subjectivities, even this morning's dewdrops groan under it.

For this anthology that just came out, I wrote a short poem in four eight-syllable tercets, titled "American Spirit".

"Europa" and "The Gronks" - two more from Salvage Nation: 100 Sonnets (Winter Editions, 2026). Available for pre-order on my X pinned post. ritualdagger.neocities.org/zineposts/ro...

two poems by rodrigo toscano

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New Orleans is a bit like Paris in the early 20th century. Every coffeehouse you go to (in the Bywater and Marigny) you run into poets. Same for bars in the early evening. Little chats and strolls lead to spontaneous gatherings of five or more people. No planning necessary.

Happy to announce my 13th full-length collection: Salvage Nation: 100 Sonnets (Winter Editions, 2026). Publication Date: November 5, 2026. Ready for pre-order now. www.wintereditions.net/home/salvage...

"Caravels out of Cádiz" from WHITMAN.CANNONBALL.PUEBLA. Not an academically fatigued "post-colonial" product, but a hyper-dense poetic précis on the living legacy of the viceroyalty of Nueva España: a complex, dialectical culture still in motion. coastlinesreview.org/issues/one/c...

Something about giant blue diamonds at the center of the earth, another factoid for your info-glutted brain. www.triquarterly.org/issue-170/fa...

The literary institutional shadow government that rules over American Poetry tests runs several poets a year looking for potential in accommodating the bedrock reality of a Late Empire in full lash out mode. Potentates lash out. And the poets, they feather massage us to sleep.

There's something even more minor than "minor poems". And I'm not afraid to lean into them - in the public square. wordpress.boogcity.com/2026/06/13/t...

For years, waking up at sunrise to tinker with verses before the day's hectoring demands. Here's "National Nook" and "Realism" from the upcoming book, Salvage Nation: 100 Sonnets (Winter Editions, fall 2026). nwreview.org/articles/nat... nwreview.org/articles/rea...

The most popular U.S. poets now are not avowed socialists, but off-the-shelf liberals. They lack the wit that comes with grappling with continuous social contradictions. They can't hold on to a telos for half a minute.

"Routines" and "Novella 14". All of the 100 sonnets I wrote last year (in 100 days) were written between 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. That is, before "the world" and its "news" came crashing in, before the demands of my job highjacked my imagination. thegoodlifereview.com/issue-twenty...

TGLR: Two Poems by Rodrigo Toscano

The Good Life Review presents two Poems by Rodrigo Toscano: Routines Novella 14, Issue #21 ~ Autumn 2025

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Indulging a randy curiosity for all sorts of phenomenon (seen and unseen) is also part of a thoroughgoing political poetics. Here's "Factoids" from "Salvage Nation: 100 Sonnets" (Winter Editions, fall 2026). sixthfinch.com/toscano2.htm...

Here's "Freak Flag" - on-line. I kind of imagined it as being found scribbled on a beer coaster at a quiet bar counter at 3:00 p.m. on a Sunday - or engraved on a bronze placard in the rotunda of a stately capitol. www.corporeallitmag.com/volume-xxiii...

Rodrigo Toscano — Corporeal

But let these loose objects lie for a bit. Notice thoughts ramble without a thinker

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Here's a one-thought flow-through sonnet on the need for a mass working class party. www.antiphonyajournalandpress.com/rodrigo-tosc...

Rodrigo Toscano Issue 10 — Antiphony: a journal & small press

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Thursday night, the final edition of The Splice Reading Series at the New Orleans Poetry Festival. Every year more poets are moving to New Orleans. Join us! Here's the sonnet I read "The Series".

No Likes is not enough. "One Like" is plenty. Two Likes or more is just an incentive to get back to a One Like mentality.

Happy to share "Earthly Mood" "Xanadu" "Aliens 8" all from the fourth section ("Working The Quirk") of Salvage Nation: 100 Sonnets. Thank you so much, Bethh! www.readbethh.org/toscano

Working with syllabics can be quite liberating. For one, the delusion of finding the-one-eternally-correct word or phrase falls away. Second, there's an endless number of compromises to wrangle with to make sense. Same as writing "without constraints". thepillmag.com/issue.iii/ro...

Thanks so much to Bethh for publishing "Early Mood" and "Xanadu" from my upcoming Salvage Nation: 100 Sonnets.

For sure, it's gratifying to be listed here alongside so many colleagues whose poetry I truly respect. "WHITMAN.CANNONBALL.PUEBLA. is a collection of poetic fables that aim to invigorate the emerging field of Globo-Poetics through Social Materialist lenses."

Here's "Freak Flag", a sonnet that - well, like much of my poetry, strives to meld together ideas and things that normally would resist being, or rather speaking together. www.corporeallitmag.com/volume-xxiii...

Rodrigo Toscano — Corporeal

But let these loose objects lie for a bit. Notice thoughts ramble without a thinker

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Thanks so much @BigOtherMag for publishing "Mystery Reader". This poem, of course, is not about "me", but about a speculative composite subject potentialized because of current material social conditions. Yeah, poems can propose its writers and readers. bigother.com/2026/03/30/m...

Mystery Reader, by Rodrigo Toscano

Downplaying entanglements with national interests and global affairs Blurring the lines between transparency and obfuscation This poet, nonetheless seems pumped enough to flip scripts This p…

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Two sonnets, "Aliens 8" and "Normies", from Salvage Nation: 100 Sonnets (Winter Editions, fall 2026). www.ghostharmonics.com/magazine/iss...

Rodrigo Toscano in Issue 01

Works by Rodrigo Toscano in Oscillations

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Poets without a deep erotic streak are terrible poets. Erotic poets without a deep political pull on themselves and others are doubly terrible.