RECENT PERFORMANCES
2024, Mardi Gras in Exile: A Louisiana Regional Offsite Reading, AWP 2024, Kansas City
2023, Notify Me! Friday, Green Kill Sessions, Station Hill Intermedia Lab, Kingston, NY
2023, Old Metairie Library, Metairie, LA
2023, Delgado's Autumn Arts Fest, New Orleans, LA
2023, Twisted River Poetry Series, Arabi, LA
2023, Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow: Trans-Genre Cabaret, Seattle, WA
2023, The Splice Poetry Series, New Orleans, LA
2022, Unlikely Saints, New Orleans, LA
2022, Tilted House Review Launch, New Orleans, LA
2022, Beside the Point, New Orleans, LA
PUBLICATIONS
2024, TILT 003, “we-a-merica,” (intermedia poem)
2023, The Hive Poetry Collective: S5: E28 Poets of The New Orleans Poetry Festival: Bill Lavender, Sean F. Munro, and Rodrigo Toscano Talk with Roxi Power
2020, Big Other: “Punching Against Poetry Cartels: An Interview with Rodrigo Toscano”
2020, Tilted House Review, “A Young Man's Advice from the Afterlife on the Night of His Murder”
2019, Split Lip: “The Battle for America”
2019, Indiana Review: “The Battle for America”
2018, Under a Warm Green Linden: “mirliton and mirrors”
2017, Brazos Bookstore: “This Time Machine Works Damn Fine: On Carolyn Hembree” (review)
2017, The Turnip Truck(s): “her lot her lot”
2016, Brooklyn Review: “enemy” “thralldom”
2016, The Offending Adam: “light theory” “monody broken by our mouth” “her high arch” “birdshot” “a knife to sing the ghost”
2015, The Turnip Truck(s): “does the knife can the hand whet the delta” “the body lyric” “dismantlion” “the entrance out of the eye”
2013, ILK: “the body within the shotgun”
2012, Spork: “a drowning above water” & “interpretation” & “the well going to the arms”
2012, Lo-Ball: “after using the copenhagen interpretation to get you into bed”
2008, Ellipsis: “Pelican Wild” & “recycled regurgitations”
2008, Winning Writers: “Poetry is my Penis”
Open Educational Resources
2019, Delgado Community College: The Writing & Research Handbook
CULTURAL LABOR
2022 – present, Co-Curator, The Splice Poetry Series
2022 – present, Manager, LitWire, the literary events calendar of New Orleans
2021 – present, Board Member, New Orleans Poetry Festival
2019 – present, Lunch Poems, Radio Host, WXDR-LP New Orleans 99.1 FM
2018 – present, Lead Organizer, Delgado Reading Series, DCC
2018 – present Co-Chair, Literature Committee, DCC
2020 – 2021, Co-Director, Scholastic Writing Awards/Southeast Louisiana Region
2020 – 2021, Co-Curator, Open Floor Reading Series, New Orleans, LA
2017 – 2018, Faculty Senate Secretary, DCC
2016 – 2018, Chair, English 102 Committee, DCC
2016 – 2018, Faculty Senate Member, DCC
2010 – 2011, Poetry Editor, Sonora Review
2009 – 2011, Volunteer, University of Arizona Poetry Center
2009 – 2011, Assistant Board Member, POG: Poetry in Action
2008 – 2009, Executive Board Member, 1718 Reading Series
2008 – 2009, English Club President, University of New Orleans
Associate Professor of English
2011-present, Delgado Community College, New Orleans, LA
EDUCATION
2011, M.F.A. in Creative Writing, University of Arizona
2008, B.A. in English, University of New Orleans
TROPHIES
2069, Underwater Poet Laureate of Old Orleans, Gulf of BP, Americo Province, N.W.O. site 9.
2019, 2nd Runner-up, Tennessee Williams Festival Poetry Prize
2011, Poetry Center Prize, University of Arizona
2011, Foundation Award, University of Arizona
2009, Humanities Fellowship, University of Arizona
2009, Graduate Tuition Scholarship, University of Arizona
2008, Honorable mention, Wergle Flomp humor poetry contest sponsored by Winning Writers
2007, Ryan Chighazola Memorial Award for Poetry, University of New Orleans