Tag: poetry
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Señal
What happens when we can no longer send propaganda across radio waves to the planets? Tonight how will we send an SOS to Karaya because it is all collapsing around us- The means the infrastructure Governors the economy homelands. How will we hear the response when our inner layers have succumbed to gravity When all…
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Reviving the Sleeping Poetisa
This is my third semester in college and it quite a doozy (did I really just use that word?). I haven’t considered myself a poet in a long time and one of my classes is a poetry class with the final project being a chapbook. I have wanted to create a chapbook for a long…
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From Sonia Guinansaca-TEDxCUNY Disappoints!
Note from Mamita Mala : Maegan E. Ortiz Last night, Sonia requested I post her statement on my blog so that she could share it. In solidarity and support of her I have done so. Statement My name is Sonia Guinansaca and I am a migrant queer poet activist and organizer. I was invited to…
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Gaza
I will write a poem for you. As soon as my kids give me a damn break.
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Never Trust a Poet
Never trust a poet to keep your secrets. They read between the lines and weave together fragments creating a story quilt that can fan flames but also smother them. Never trust a poet to be discrete. It’s not in their nature. They are like parasites sucking molocules of life to survive and making them their…
Maegan E. Ortiz - Mamita Mala 