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Speakers

    

Lorena Duarte

  
Lorena Duarte
Photo by Dan Seipp/Con Tiempo Productions

Birthplace:
El Salvador

Media:
Poetry, Spoken Word

Languages Spoken:
Spanish, English

Audiences Preferred:
Elementary, Middle, High School, Community,
College, Business

Length of Presentation:
1 - 2 hours

Themes:
Cross-Cultural; Multilingual Migrations through Love; War; Politics; Language; Family and Culture

Website:
www.palabristas.com

Nurtured by the works of Latin American masters and brought up in the age of hip-hop, Lorena Duarte believes poets are "songs and silent screams/we are/singing minstrels/town-truth criers/we are people writing riots into life- breaking reality."

Lorena was born in civil war-ravaged El Salvador, raised in Minnesota and educated at Harvard University. She is passionate about poetry, education and human rights and is committed to helping youth develop their own paths to self expression. Lorena aims to use poetry and spoken word as vehicles towards social justice and awareness. In her presentation, she introduces poetry-not as a rarefied, unreachable craft-but as a form of information sharing, education, empowerment and inspiration for everyone.