Long Beach's Youth Poet Laureate Ezequiel recites "My Ballad"
Long Beach Public Library
Ezequiel Korea, a seventeen-year-old senior from Long Beach High School, presents his poem "My Ballad" as a powerful declaration of identity rooted in the Mexican-American experience. The piece opens with an epigraph by Freda Kalo that establishes Ezequiel's stance: he is both the creator and the su …