About Raquel Salas Rivera
Raquel Salas Rivera is a bilingual Puerto Rican poet, translator and editor. He was appointed as the fourth Poet Laureate of Philadelphia for 2018-19 and honored by the New Voices Award of the Festival of the Word of Puerto Rico. He is the author of five full-length poetry books, including, lo terciario/ the tertiary, which won the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry and was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award; while they sleep (under the bed is another country), which was longlisted for the 2020 Pen America Open Book Award and was a finalist for CLMP’s 2020 Firecracker Award; and x/ex/exis, which won the inaugural Ambroggio Prize. His sixth book, antes que isla es volcán/before island is volcano, is an imaginative leap into Puerto Rico’s decolonial future and is forthcoming from Beacon Press in 2022. He currently lives in Puerto Rico.Browse all poems and texts published on Raquel Salas Rivera
