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. Ortiz has performed his poetry at numerous readings, political rallies, activist conferences, and benefits.
Emmanuel Ortiz
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- 1974
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- United States
- Occupation
- poet
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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.
• Moment of Silence (2002) • The Word is a Machete: Post-Pocho/Puerto Rican Poems of the Personal and Political (2003) • Under What Bandera? Anti-War Ofrendas from Minnesota y Califas (2004, Editor) Calaca Press • I Wanted to Write an Anti-War Poem, But... (2004) • Brown unLike Me: Poems From the Second Layer of Our Skin (2009)
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1974
Emmanuel Ortiz born.
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• 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
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