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Mónica de la Torre’s seven poetry books include Pause the Document, just out from Nightboat Books. Other books include 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 is the recipient of a Creative Capital grant and the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts C.D. Wright Award for Poetry and teaches poetry and translation at Brooklyn College's Creative Writing MFA program.