Edwin Torres, one of the most startling performers of the Nuyorican poetry scene, will participate in UAlbany's Diasporican Poetry Cafe, tonight in the Campus Center Ballroom, 5:30-7:45 p.m.
"I have seen Edwin Torres dancing to the sound of a musical saw while wearing a
hat of dirt on his head in a store window, and once wearing pure white with the
painter/poet Elizabeth Castagna on New Year's day 1999. I've always wanted to be
Edwin Torres for a day, to think like him, to wear cool glasses, to be as tall
and thin, to have Puerto Rican soul so I could write 'I'm near a tiger's smooch,
BURP!'"
Read more of Brenda Coultas' Electronic Poetry Center review of Edwin Torres' poetry collection, Fractured Humorous here: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/torrese/fractured.html
Get a taste of Torres' performance style on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8uOPBn5jW4