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Adèle This poem was taken down because it has been accepted for publication. © Sergio A. Ortiz, May 16, 2010
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Preview of a non-fiction piece I have been asked to write for a literary journal
Write Yourself Sober: Memoirs of a Puerto Rican not from El Barrio A veces te sientes como si anduvieras en el hoyo negro de alg ú n universo recién descubierto, meciéndote en la nada, esperando que un día vengan por ti. Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Epidemiología I just got home from a workshop given by the award winning Puerto Rican writer Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro. She was great, more like fabulous, yes, fabulous is the word I am looking for. She did what I expected a good experienced writer would do, which was; turn me on to a few “new to me” Puerto Rican writers and put me to work. She read two of her own poems, after which I mumbled: “que fuerte,” because her poems were in that right in your face persona I love to assume myself. She read from a couple of short stories written by contemporary Puerto Rican writers that were amazing, and we went right into writing a poem. In this case it was a queer poem because this is all part of “La Tercera Jornada Contra la Homofobía.” I b