Showing posts with label Tato Laviera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tato Laviera. Show all posts
Friday, February 4, 2011
Living Poet Trubute Poll: Final Tally!
Amiri Baraka
10 (11%)
Sandra Maria Esteves
4 (4%)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
9 (10%)
Piri Thomas
4 (4%)
Sonia Sanchez
6 (6%)
Maya Angelou
23 (26%)
Nikki Giovanni
9 (10%)
Jayne Cortez
1 (1%)
Rita Dove
5 (5%)
Tato Laviera
5 (5%)
Maxine Kumin
3 (3%)
Abiodun Oyewole
3 (3%)
Ntozake Shange
5 (5%)
Votes: 87
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Living Poet Tribute Poll - Only 5 Days Left!
This is the way the poll stands:
Amiri Baraka
9 (12%)
Sandra Maria Esteves
4 (5%)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
8 (10%)
Piri Thomas
3 (4%)
Sonia Sanchez
5 (6%)
Maya Angelou
17 (23%)
Nikki Giovanni
7 (9%)
Jayne Cortez
1 (1%)
Rita Dove
4 (5%)
Tato Laviera
5 (6%)
Maxine Kumin
2 (2%)
Abiodun Oyewole
3 (4%)
Ntozake Shange
5 (6%)
Votes so far: 73
Days left to vote: 5
Monday, March 8, 2010
Tato Laviera's poem "my graduation speech"
my graduation speech
By Tato Laviera
i think in spanish
i write in english
i want to go back to puerto rico,
but i wonder if my kink could live
in ponce, maygüez and carolina
tengo las venas aculturdas
escribo en spanglish
abraham in español
abraham in english
tato in spanish
“taro” in english
tonto in both languages
how are you?
¿cómo estás?
i don’t know if i’m coming
or si me fui ya
si me dicen barranquitas, yo reply,
“¿con qué se come eso?”
si me dicen caviar, i digo,
“a new pair of converse sneakers.”
ahí supe que estory jodío
ahí supe que estamos jodíos
english or spanish
spanish or english
spanenglish
now, dig this:
hablo lo inglés matao
hablo lo español matao
no sé leer ninguno bien
so it is, spanglish to matao
what i digo
¡ay, virgen, yo no sé hablar!
— From “La Carreta Made a U-Turn,” Arte Público Press
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