Selección de Algarabía (Graywolf, 2025)
Selection from Algarabía (Graywolf, 2025)
Roque-Raquel-Salas-Rivera-1Roque Raquel Salas Rivera is a Puerto Rican poet and translator. His honors include being named Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, the Premio Nuevas Voces, and the Ambroggio Prize. He has written six full-length poetry books, including lo terciario / the tertiary (Noemi Press, 2019), while they sleep (under the bed is another country) (Birds LLC, 2019), and antes que isla es volcán / before island is volcano (Beacon Press, 2022). Salas Rivera teaches and creates in Puerto Rico.Accompanied by his cat, Pietri, he is also currently working on the trans epic poem Algarabía, which will be published in 2025 by Graywolf Press.