a benefit performance for Trinidad Sanchez, Jr.
Ruelaine Stokes, our coordinator of the Old Town Poetry Series, sent me this email yesterday that I am passing along to you. Whatever we can do to help, I am sure we will:
With great saddness, I am passing on the news that our beloved and enormously gifted poet Trinidad Sanchez, Jr. suffered a massive stroke on July 18th and is in the Intensive Care Unit at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio. Trino, as he is known to friends, has worked in the Lansing Schools, has appeared at WayStation Books numerous times, joined the NUpoets at Gregory's, appeared as a poet at the LCC Black History Month reading, and joined the Old Town Poets at the Creole Gallery for a fabulous reading the February before last.
Listening to Trino read, you felt like you had known him all your life. And he is not only a brilliant poet and performer. . . . . . . . . he is an artist who dedicated his life to encouraging and teaching others to write and to perform. . . . "to get out there and do it."
The word on Trino is that the stroke is massive and doctors do not give much hope for his survival. But he is surrounded by people who love him, and poets and friends have come from many places to read poetry to him and to be by his side. On Friday, the 21st, he woke up from the coma he had been in & is responding to those around him although he can only say a few words. . . .
He is not insured. I would be interested in working together with anyone interesting in co-organizing a benefit performance to raise money for his care.
Whatever we can do to help, Ruelaine, I am sure we will.