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Description: Amalia Ortiz is a Tejana performance poet who has appeared on three seasons of Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry on HBO and the NAACP Image Awards on FOX. She has toured countless colleges and universities as a solo artist, and with the performance-poetry troupes Diva Diction, The Chicano Messengers of Spoken Word, and the Def Poetry College Tour.n nIn 2002, she was awarded the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral artist grant from Sandra Cisneros. She is a CantoMundo Fellow and was selected as a Hedge
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