Emmanuel Ortiz (born 1974) is a
Chicano/
Puerto Rican/
Irish-American activist
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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.
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’s Democracy Now!.
His controversial poem,
Moment of Silence, circulated the internet a year after
September 11th, 2001.
Selected works
* ''Moment of Silence'' (2002)
* ''The Word is a Machete: Post-Pocho/Puerto Rican Poems of the Personal and Political'' (2003)
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* ''Under What Bandera? Anti-War Ofrendas from Minnesota y Califas'' (2004, Editor) ]Calaca Press
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Description
Tracing t ...
*''I Wanted to Write an Anti-War Poem, But...'' (2004)
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
Louder ARTS project page
References
1974 births
American people of Irish descent
American poets of Mexican descent
American people of Puerto Rican descent
Living people
Puerto Rican poets
Puerto Rican male writers
21st-century American poets
21st-century American male writers
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