San Jose Poet Lorenz Mazon Damuk; "Fat"

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Lorenz Mazon Dumuk is a writer and community organizer. Through his love for music was where he started to fall in love with lyrics and the written word. Lorenz would not start writing his own poetry until middle school. He was first introduced to spoken word through his involvement with San Jose’s, FYC (Filipino Youth Coalition), an organization he credits for developing his love for Filipino history and its stories. Lorenz was fortunate to develop part of his writing craft through the creative writing classes at Evergreen Valley College which help pushed him to acquired his BA in Creative Writing at Cal State East Bay. He has two collections of poetry, Ay Nako: Writing Through the Struggle and I Think in Poetry. Lorenz has co-written with Tony Santa Ana, the play, Dream Cypher, which went into production in the spring of 2004 at San Jose’s MACLA theater. He is currently involved with the organization The ReWrite, which focuses on building and developing the API spoken word and poetry community in the Bay Area. Lorenz continues to work on the project to not only erase the limitations of his poetry, but push him to become a better person for his community.