Poetry: A Moment in History
by Nancy Lorenza Green



The tall
Black man
steps
into
the light
...



Nancy Lorenza Green, M.Ed. is an Afro-Chicana performance and recording artist from El Paso and Cd. Juarez who uses poetry, percussion instruments and flute music as mediums of communication and cultural expression. Nancy has recorded three cds: Music From the Heart, Life Is Sacred, and a Tumblewords poetry compilation. Her poetry has been published in Border Senses, Chrysalis, Newspaper Tree, and Mujeres de Maíz Zine 5& 6. Nancy is the recipient of the 2006 Art & Entertainment Hispanos Triunfadores award and the 1999 Que Bonita Familia Homenaje a la Mujer award.

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Las oraciones son los hilos y el tejido es la aparicion de la luz.


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Prayers are threads and weaving is the birth of light.


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by José Lezama Lima




quoted in Cecilia Vicuña's Unravelling Words & the Weaving of Water