Marco Katz Montiel

Marco Katz Montiel, proper noun. a) recording artist with Charlie Palmieri and other salsa musicians; b) character who appears in La leyenda de Mon Rivera y otros relatos, a book by Jairo Grijalba Ruiz; c) composer of songs, poems, stories, and essays published by International Music Company and in Copihue Poetry, Camino Real, Lowestoft Chronicle, and Ploughshares; d) author of Salsa Sensations—Salsero Life in the Seventies, from which “Dulce” has been excerpted. Marco Katz Montiel, verb. a) a nearly complete biography of his life as a musician appears in the December 2012-January 2013 edition of the Puerto Rican cultural journal Herencia Latina*; b) his life of writing still has a long way to go…