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]

External links

• Louder ARTS project page

References

1. "Before I Start This Poem By Emmanuel Ortiz". Scoop Media Group. Retrieved 2008-02-03.
2. "Emmanuel Ortiz". the louderARTS Project. Retrieved 2008-02-03.
3. "Calaca mp3s". Calaca Press. Retrieved 2008-02-03.
4. "How do you know if you are winning a war?". The Forum. Retrieved 2008-02-03.
5. "I Wanted to Write an Anti-War Poem, But...". Calaca Press. Retrieved 2008-02-03.
6. "Brown unLike Me".