HIVESTRUCK

A poet whose work has focused on Puerto Rican and Latinx history and identity poses the question of what makes us human, and technology's part in that process, through a decolonial lens.

This collection's blend of Latinx futurism and satire, along with Toro's experimental manipulations of form, is sure to keep readers engaged. HIVESTRUCK's structurally inventive poetry and exploration of Latinx identity and experiences will particularly appeal to readers of Carmen Gimenez, Willie Perdomo, and J. Michael Martinez, as well as fans of science and tech-tinged poetry such as Tracy K. Smith's Life on Mars and Franny Choi's Soft Science. It will also appeal to speculative literature communities, especially of BIPOC people. Vincent Toro's third collection of poetry is a work of Latinxfuturism that confronts the enigmatic and paradoxical relationship human beings have with technology. The poems are a tapestry of meditations on social media and surveillance culture; satires on science fiction and the space race; interrogations of artificial intelligence, cyborg economics, and biohacking; and tributes to women, queer, and BIPOC people who have contributed and are contributing to human survival and progress in a technology obsessed world. Vincent Toro is a Puerto Rican poet, playwright, and professor. He is the author of two poetry collections: Tertulia and Stereo.Island.Music, which won the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award. Vincent is the recipient of the Caribbean Writer's Cecile De Jongh Poetry Prize, the Spanish Repertory Theater's Nuestra Voces Playwriting Award, a Poet's House Emerging Poets Fellowship, a New York Council for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, and a New Jersey State Council for the Arts Writer's Fellowship. His poetry and prose have been published in dozens of magazines and journals, and have been anthologized in Saul Williams' CHORUS,?Puerto Rico En Mi Corazon, Best American Experimental Writing 2015, Misrepresented People,?and?The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Rider University, is a Dodge Foundation Poet, and is a contributing editor for Kweli Literary Journal.?