About Uxmar
Uxmar is an award-winning Mexica-American Poet and interdisciplinary artist native to the Southside of Chicago. He began writing at age ten and earned his bachelor’s degree in Poetry from Augustana College. Uxmar has been featured on stages internationally and has performed poetry competitively since his debut in 2008. His poetry has been published in magazines and literary journals across the United States, and he was elected as the Inaugural Poet Laureate of Joliet, Illinois in 2024. His spoken word projects bring new life and storytelling to the genre of Spoken Word Music. His mission is to help keep alive the oral tradition where poetry was born.
About FAUX
FAUX is a Poetry and Music Duo that was created when brothers Oliver Fade and Uxmar Torres had an idea: they wanted to produce music tailored for spoken word poetry. After experimenting with thousands of sounds and over the course of a year, they put together their first studio album The Garden. (Which is available on all music streaming platforms.)