Published Work: Be sure to pick up Bullets and Butterflies edited by Emanuel Xavier! "When spoken word became the trend du jour for wannabe intellectuals and aspiring bohemians, a frightening new wave of redundant, vacuous poetry focused not on honesty of emotion, but on clever rhyme patterns, took center stage. "Bullets and Butterflies" restores some much-needed honesty to the genre with its poignant poems, which touch upon subjects such as love, identity, ruptured families, revolution, death, rejection and bigotry. Although not all of the poems dazzle, there are no space-fillers here. Puerto Rican and Ecuadorian poet Emmanuel Xavier hits high notes with "A Simple Poem" and "Legendary," but it's Travis Montez and Staceyann Chin who steal the show with their viscerally visual accounts." -Celia San Miguel, New York Post-Tempo, Wednesday, April 13, 2005 Click here for more info>