Mónica de la Torre

’s seven poetry books include Pause the Document, just out from Nightboat Books; Repetition Nineteen; The Happy End / All Welcome, a riff on a riff on Kafka’s Amerika; and two collections in Spanish published in her native Mexico City. Among other anthologies, she co-edited Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–79. She teaches poetry and translation at Brooklyn College’s Creative Writing MFA program.

Contributions

The Matrix Is Silence

Mónica de la Torre

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January 12, 2026

“If, out of the blue, I started speaking a poem, I offer, / they’d have to reckon with its flitting presence, the way..."—Mónica de la Torre