About the Author

Marc Nasdor is a native of Baltimore, Maryland, who lived in New York City from 1980–2018 before returning to his hometown. His previous books of poems are Sonnetailia, (Roof Books, 2007) and Treni In Partenza (full text in Temblor 7, 1988) and his poems have appeared in many journals and magazines. He was involved for a decade producing international literary festivals and the promotion and translation of international poetry for publication, readings and radio. In addition to his literary activities, Nasdor (a/k/a Poodlecannon) is known as an eclectic global music DJ in New York City, and has also DJ’d in Hungary and Mexico. He currently lives in Baltimore.

Insurgentes / Avenues, Marc Nasdor’s third book of poetry, is a sequence of forty short poems which focus on the language that floats around us in the media, in overheard dialogue, and in personal conversations. Rather than transparent narrative, the poems use tangential and disjunctive phrases and sentences to better reflect the way in which we receive language in the world. Regarding form, the poems combine three-line stanzas with normal punctuation with indented breath-line stanzas with little or none, to reflect as well, the different ways we hear language.