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Poets from the Unamuno Poetry Series: Luis J. Rodríguez – A Talk and a Poem

International Institute > Schedule > Poets from the Unamuno Poetry Series > Poets from the Unamuno Poetry Series: Luis J. Rodríguez – A Talk and a Poem

Free activity in English to chat with the American poet Luis J. Rodríguez and analyze among the participants, together with him, one of his poems.

Brief biographical note in English:

In 1954, Luis J. Rodríguez was born in El Paso, Texas. He grew up in Watts and the East Los Angeles area, where his family faced poverty and discrimination. A gang member and drug user at the age of twelve, by the time he turned eighteen, Rodríguez had lost twenty-five of his friends from him to gang violence, drug overdoses, shootings, and suicide. He wrote two autobiographical accounts of his experiences with gang violence and addiction, It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing (Touchstone, 2012), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, and Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in LA (Curbstone Books, 1993), winner of the Carl Sandburg Award of the Friends of the Chicago Public Library.

His books of poetry include My Nature is Hunger: New & Selected Poems, 1989-2004 (Curbstone Books, 2005), winner of a 2006 Paterson Poetry Book Prize; trochemoche (Curbstone Books, 1998); The Concrete River (Curbstone Books, 1991), which won a PEN West/Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence; and Poems Across the Pavement (Tía Chucha, 1989), which received San Francisco State University's Poetry Center Book Award.

He is also a journalist and critic and the founder of Tía Chucha Press, which publishes emerging, socially conscious poets. In May 1998, Curbstone Press published his first children's book by him, entitled America Is Her Name. In 2014, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti Rodríguez appointed as the poet laureate of Los Angeles. Rodríguez currently resides in California and manages the Tía Chucha Cultural Center in San Fernando.

Taken from poets.org

More information in English at Poetry Foundation y http://www.luisjrodriguez.com/

See more information about: Poets from the Unamuno Poetry Series.

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  • Date: 4 May 2017
  • Time: 6: 30 pm - 7: 30 pm
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2017-05-04 18:30:00 2017-05-04 19:30:00 Europe / Madrid Poets from the Unamuno Poetry Series: Luis J. Rodríguez – A Talk and a Poem International American Institute - Miguel Ángel 8, Madrid info@iie.es
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