Dialogues / Interviews

Nineteen questions & answers about Rodrigo Toscano’s writing practice (Rob McLennan’s Blog).

“Poetic Mulching” (a dialogue with V. Joshua Adams, talking about Whitman, meta-politics, cultural political expansionism, Higher Ed and its poetries, Latinx writing, Empire) (Jacket2)

“Scaling The National Through Poetics” (a dialogue between Rodrigo Toscano and Paisley Rekdal) (The Rumpus)

“Zoning In, Zoning Out” (trialogue with Edgar Garcia and Jose-Luis Moctezuma) (Jacket2)

“Blood”, “Spirit”, and “Nation” with Julie Carr (Big Other)

“The Now What question of Music and Poetics” with Clare Louise Harmon (Jacket2)

“Messing with All of It” (Poets Rodrigo Toscano and Sandra Simonds talk Politics, Poetics, Work, and Class) (Literary Hub)

Interview by Cid Galicia (Goodlife Review)

Interview on The Reading Life (WWNO radio, New Orleans)

“Love in the Dust” with Michael Gottlieb (The Operating System)

“Staying in Range” with Henk Rossouw (Tupelo Quarterly)

“Pandimia” with Suzanne Stein (Big Other)

Interview with Anne Cheilek about prize RT’s prize winning poem “Gaps” (Reed Magazine)

“In Range (catching up with Rodrigo Toscano)” with Cristian Gomez Olivares (Make Literary Magazine)

A few rapid questions and answers from Good Life Review

“Territorios Sin Cartografiar” con Cristian Gomez (en español) (Nau Poesía)

“A Poetics of Ghosting” with Aaron Beasley (Boston Review)

“Rodrigo Toscano by Roberto Tejada” with Roberto Tejada (Bomb Magazine)

“The Poetics of Readiness” (interview of Ben Aleshire) (Big Other)

“Where Glaciers Meet The See” with Cecilia Vicuña (English) (Español)

Interview (video) with Luis Lopez Maldonado (Notre Dame)

“Conditions of Poetic Production and Reception (part 1, ‘Squat Theatre and Crisis’ and part 2, ‘Body Capacitance and Edging in Poetics Theater’)” with Natalie Knight (Jacket Magazine)

Conditions of Poetic Production and Reception (Part 2. “Body Capacitance and Edging in Poetics Theater”) with Natalie Knight

“Conditions of Poetic Production and Reception (part 3, ‘Ritualized Sacrifice, Gauging the Material Social’) with Natalie Knight (Barzakh)

“Conditions of Poetic Production and Reception (part 4, ‘New Resistant Subjects (Bot to Bot’)” with Natalie Knight (Simon Fraser University)

“Conditions of Poetic Production and Reception (part 5, ‘Transitions of Capitalist Hyperspace (shake yr. booty)'” (UPENN)

Rodrigo Toscano and Laura Elrick on performing Hannah Weiner (Kenning Editions, 2010)

“Rodrigo Toscano Unzips Three Questions” with UPENN

“What’s American About American Poetry 2010?” with Poetry Society of America

“The Third Degree” with Nate Wilkerson (Puerto Del Sol)

“Red, White, and Blue” with Poetry Society of America

“Bumper Car Effect” with Leonard Schwartz (Jacket Magazine)