The Poetry Project

Mónica de la Torre

Black-and-white photo of a grey-haired woman with short hair dressed in a black dress and standing alongside a framed photo-collage by performance artist Carolee Schneemann.
© Nat Ward

Mónica de la Torre is the author, most recently, of Pause the Document. Other titles include Repetition Nineteen, The Happy End/All Welcome, and two collections in Spanish published in her native Mexico City. She co-edited Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–79 and received a 2022 Creative Capital grant as well as a 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts C.D. Wright Poetry Award. She teaches poetry and translation at Brooklyn College.