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TAKES FIVE; ORLANDO RICARDO MENES; Immigrant uses poetry to give voice to unheard
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Poet and associate professor Orlando Ricardo Menes is the son of
Cuban parents and had a great-great-grandfather who was Chinese.
Menes was born in Peru and lived there until a coup d'etat forced his
family to flee to Miami. He earned degrees in art from the University
of Florida and a doctorate in English at the University of Illinois-
Chicago. Today, at 47, he teaches poetry, creative writing and
literature at the University of Notre Dame. His poetry draws on his
multicultural experiences a...
