Long considered one of the leading poets of his generation, alongside such celebrated peers as Homero Pumarol, Frank Báez won the coveted Salomé Ureña Prize of the Dominican Republic in 2009, and he has continued to publish widely in anthologies and journals; his full-length collections include Este es el futuro que estabas esperando (Seix Barral, 2017).  His sense of humor, zest for life, fearlessness in melding pop culture with high culture, his fusion of spoken word energy with traditional verse, and his vision rooted in the quisqueyano experience make for a thrilling reading experience when discovering his verse.