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About 3 years before Carlos Cortez’s death, Jeanne Salis and Kapra Fleming brought tequila and dinner to share with Carlos for numerous months while he was homebound in the winter of 2002. Jeanne Salis interviewed Carlos Cortez about art, life, love, poetry and politics. This segment contains Carlos reading some of his “Soap Box” poems that include:
Blues for a Bus Driver
Ba Gia: Requiem for a Village
Youngstown
Youngstown Revisited
Speranzi
Requiem for ‘Two Dago Reds’
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Carlos Cortez at La Llorona Gallery
A transcription of a video interview with Carlos Cortez by Jeanne Salis and Kapra Fleming at the La Llorona Gallery in Chicago, February 14, 2002 as he talks about his work that was showing in a two-person show with José González: Carlos Cortez at La Llorona Gallery.