- Emmanuel Ortiz
Emmanuel Ortiz (born 1974) is a
Chicano /Puerto Rica n/Irish-American activist and spoken-word poet. He has worked with the Minnesota Alliance for the Indigenous Zapatistas (MAIZ) and Estación Libre and as a staff member of the Resource Centre of the Americas.cite web
title=Before I Start This Poem By Emmanuel Ortiz
url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0409/S00130.htm
publisher=Scoop Media Group
accessdate=2008-02-03] Ortiz has performed his poetry at numerous readings, political rallies, activist conferences, and benefits. His works appeared in "The Roots of Terror" a reader published by Project South, as well as others. His readings of his poems have appeared on Pacifica Radio’sDemocracy Now! . cite web
title=Emmanuel Ortiz
url=http://www.louderarts.com/poets/eortiz/
publisher=the louderARTS Project
accessdate=2008-02-03] His controversial poem, Moment of Silence, circulated the internet a year after September 11th, 2001. cite web
title=Calaca mp3s
url=http://www.calacapress.com/cpmp3s.html
publisher=Calaca Press
accessdate=2008-02-03] cite web
title=How do you know if you are winning a war?
url=http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=182
publisher=The Forum
accessdate=2008-02-03]elected works
*(2002). "Moment of Silence."
*(2003). "The Word is a Machete: Post-Pocho/Puerto Rican Poems of the Personal and Political".
*(2004). "Under What Bandera? Anti-War Ofrendas from Minnesota y Califas". (Editor). Calaca Press. ISBN 0-9717035-3-1.
**(2004). "I Wanted to Write an Anti-War Poem, But..."cite web
title=I Wanted to Write an Anti-War Poem, But...
url=http://www.calacapress.com/redcalacarts/redcalacarts-uwbemmanuel.html
publisher=Calaca Press
accessdate=2008-02-03]
*(2006). "Brown unLike Me: Poems From the Second Layer of Our Skin".cite web
url=http://www.americas.org/bookstore/product_10672
title=Link broken]Awards
*Bookstore of the Americas Book of the Year Award in 2003 for "The Word is a Machete: Post-Pocho/Puerto Rican Poems of the Personal and Political"
External links
* [http://www.louderarts.com/poets/eortiz Louder ARTS project page]
References
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