Welcome Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, New SX Salon Creative Editor
It is a great pleasure to add our welcome to Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, who joins the Small Axe Project as the incoming sx salon Creative Editor. Roque is a poet of alluring imagery and a translator of distinction, and it is a great privilege and honor to have him in our community in this capacity. Welcome Roque!
Roque Raquel Salas Rivera is a Puerto Rican poet, educator,and translator of trans experience.His honors include being named Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, the Premio Nuevas Voces, and the inaugural Ambroggio Prize. Among his six poetry books are lo terciario/ the tertiary (Noemi, 2019), longlisted for the National Book Award and winner of the Lambda Literary Award, and while they sleep (under the bed is another country) (Birds LLC, 2019), which inspired the title for no existe un mundo poshuracán at the Whitney Museum. In September 2025, Graywolf Press will publish his epic poem Algarabía. Roque currently teaches in the Comparative Literature Program at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, and serves the needs of a fierce cat named Pietri.
