Roque Raquel Salas Rivera Residency Reading - Poetic License Project

Join us in person for the Poetic License Project featuring a special reading by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera.

Roque Raquel Salas Rivera (Mayagüez, 1985) is a Puerto Rican poet, educator, and translator. The 2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, he has received the Premio Nuevas Voces, the Ambroggio Prize, and the Lambda Literary Award. His eight poetry collections include while they sleep (under the bed is another country) (Birds LLC, 2019), which inspired the title of the exhibition no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane María, and the epic poem Algarabía (Graywolf, 2025). He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Comparative Literature Program at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez.