Brown unLike Me: Poems from the Second Layer of My Skin

Calaca Press presents

Brown unLike Me

Poems from the Second Layer of My Skin

A reading with Ft. Wayne, Indiana poet

Emmanuel Ortiz

Plus word from:

Lizz Huerta and Manuel J. Vélez

January 30, 2010

7pm

FREE

VOZ ALTA
1754 National Ave.
Barrio Logan, Califas 92113

Emmanuel Ortiz is a third-generation Chicano/Puerto Rican/Irish-American community organizer and poet. He has read his poetry in various cities nationwide, at uncountable readings, rallies, conferences, classrooms, benefit shows, and even in a prison. His first chapbook of poems, The Word is a Machete: Post-Pocho/Puerto Rican Poems of the Personal and Political was self-published in 2003 and in 2004 he co-edited Under What Bandera? Anti-War Ofrendas from Minnesota y Califas (Red CalacArts Publications). His chapbook Brown unLike Me: Poems from the Second Layer of My Skin was published by Calaca Press in 2008. He currently resides in Ft. Wayne, Indiana with his dogs Cuca and Nogi.

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