Emmanuel Ortiz
Emmanuel Ortiz (born 1974) is a Chicano/Puerto Rican/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.[1] 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!.[2] His controversial poem, Moment of Silence, circulated the internet a year after September 11th, 2001.[3][4]
Selected works
- Moment of Silence.(2002)
- The Word is a Machete: Post-Pocho/Puerto Rican Poems of the Personal and Political.(2003)[2]
- Under What Bandera? Anti-War Ofrendas from Minnesota y Califas. (2004; Editor). Calaca Press ISBN 0-9717035-3-1.
- I Wanted to Write an Anti-War Poem, But...(2004)[5]
- Brown unLike Me: Poems From the Second Layer of Our Skin. (2009)[6]
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[2]
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