April 12 - Writers of Color Reading
Carol Connolly Reading Series
Thursday, April 12, 2007
7:00 PM at Patrick's Cabaret
3010 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis
Free and open to the public
Featuring:
TERESA ORTIZ: Soy una poeta, educadora, activista y madre mexicana. Nací en la Ciudad de México, vine por primera vez a Minnesota en los años '70s, y he vivido además en los estados de California y South Dakota, en Guatemala, Centro América, en el norte y en el sur de México. En este lugar, en el estado de Chiapas, trabajé con comunidades indígenas y recopilé testimonios para un libro: "Never Again a World Without Us, Voices of Maya Women in Chiapas, Mexico", EPICA, 2001.
ANA VITE-MELCHOR: I am Mexicana. I am 20 years old and have lived in the United States for 11 years I like to write because I find myself within my poems. My poems say everything and, at times when I feel sad or angry, I breathe through my words. My culture has a strong base in the arts. Its influence has reached my generation from my ancestors to my grandparents.
This Carol Connolly Reading is sponsored in part by Patrick's Cabaret.