Emmanuel Ortiz Explained

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 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]

External links

• Louder ARTS project page

Notes and References

1. Web site: Before I Start This Poem By Emmanuel Ortiz. Scoop Media Group . 2008-02-03.
2. Web site: Emmanuel Ortiz. the louderARTS Project. 2008-02-03. 2018-10-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20181007102721/http://www.louderarts.com/poets/eortiz/. dead.
3. Web site: Calaca mp3s. Calaca Press. 2008-02-03.
4. Web site: How do you know if you are winning a war?. The Forum. 2008-02-03.
5. Web site: I Wanted to Write an Anti-War Poem, But.... Calaca Press. 2008-02-03.
6. Web site: Brown unLike Me.