After having a very poetry-filled weekend, I thought I would share the following piece by Emmanuel Ortiz called: A moment of silence before I start this poem
Ortiz's piece, along with Suheir Hammad's piece first writing since have got to be my favorite 9/11 poems.
Emmanuel Ortiz is a third-generation Chicano/Puerto Rican/Irish-American community organizer and spoken word poet residing in Minneapolis, MN. He is the author of a chapbook of poems, The Word is a Machete, and his poetry has appeared in numerous publications.In addition to other activities, he is the coordinator of Guerrilla Wordfare, a Twin Cities-based grassroots project bringing together artists of color to address socio-political issues and raise funds for progressive organizing in communities of color through art as a tool of social change.
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