1. Luis J. Rodriguez - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Luis J. Rodriguez (born 1954) is an American poet, novelist, journalist, critic, and columnist. His work has won several awards, and he is recognized as a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_J._Rodriguez

Luis J. Rodriguez From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Luis J. Rodriguez (born ) is an American poet, novelist, journalist, critic, and columnist. His work has won several awards, and he is recognized as a major figure of contemporary Chicano literature . His best-known work, Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. , is the recipient of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, among others, and has been the subject of controversy when included on reading lists in California, Illinois, Michigan, and Texas schools due to its frank depictions of gang life. Rodriguez has also founded or co-founded numerous organizations, including the T­a Chucha Press, which publishes the work of unknown writers, , a San Fernando Valley cultural center , and the Chicago -based Youth Struggling for Survival, an organization for at-risk youth. Contents Early life Gang and political activities Writing career Quotes ... edit Early life Rodriguez was born in the United States-Mexico border city El Paso, Texas . His parents, natives of Ciudad Ju¡rez Chihuahua , had their children on the U.S. side of the border to ease the transition into the United States, where they had intentions of relocating. His father was a high school principal and his mother, who is descended from the

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features: Book of Voices home special chapters artists catalog catalogs by culture ... about the Book of Voices related websites: e-poets.net home e-poets.net Videotheque Luis Rodriguez Luis Rodriguez is a poet, journalist, social activist, and publisher whose history spans America from Mexico's Copper Canyon to East Los Angeles to Chicago. He is a survivor of much gang violence in his youth. In 1993, he published "Always Running - La Vida Loca : Gang Days in L.A." (Curbstone Press), a journal of his gang life experiences from the 1960s and '70s. Poetry titles of his by Curbstone Press include and " Trochemoche (Helter Skelter)" (1998), and "The Concrete River" (1991). His first poetry volume, "Poems Across the Pavement" (Tia Chucha Press, 1989), won the 1989 Poetry Center National Book Award from San Francisco State University. Rodriguez founded Tia Chucha Press, which remains one of Chicago's most noteworthy hometown literary presses. Rodriguez' work speaks of Latinos' disenfranchisement and pursuit of empowerment in the United States in a voice that is faithful to its culture, unapologetic, and proud. His writing remains accessible to the broader Anglo society in which it lives. In 2000, Rodriguez moved his immediate family from Chicago back to Los Angeles to be closer to relatives, and to continue his writing energized by his experiences decades before. His mission through Tia Chucha then evolved into . Further information on Rodriguez can be found at the author's own website Audition these poems by clicking on the titles:

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@import url(/~media/elements/Text/font_styles.css); nzpoetsonline Bio: Luis J. Rodriguez E-mail: ljr@luisjrodriguez.com / Website: www.luisjrodriguez.com Luis J. Rodriguez has emerged as one of the leading Chicano writers in the country with eight nationally published books in memoir, fiction, nonfiction, children's literature, and poetry. Luis' poetry has won a Poetry Center Book Award, a PEN Josephine Miles Literary Award, and "Foreword" magazine's Silver Book Award, among others. His two children's books have won a Patterson Young Adult Book Award, two "Skipping Stones" Honor Award, and a Parent's Choice Book Award, among others. Luis is best known for the 1993 memoir of gang life, "Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A." An international best seller, the memoir also garnered a Carl Sandburg Literary Award, a Chicago Sun-Times Book Award, and was designated a New York Times Notable Book. Written as a cautionary tale for Luis' then 15-year-old son Ramiro, who had joined a Chicago gang, the memoir is popular among youth and teachers. Despite this, the American Library Association in 1999 called "Always Running" one of the ten most censored books in the United States. Efforts to remove his books from public school libraries and reading lists have occurred in Illinois, Michigan, Texas, and more recently in California, where the battles were quite heated. Yet for all the controversy, Luis has gained the respect of the literary community. In addition to the above honors, he has received a Sundance Institute Art Writers Fellowship, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award, a Lannan Fellowship for Poetry, an Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature, a National Association for Poetry Therapy Public Service Award, a California Arts Council Fellowship, an Illinois Author of the Year Award, several Illinois Arts Council fellowships, the 2001Premio Fronterizo, and "Unsung Heroes of Compassion" Award, presented by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

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AmoXcalli Library in Nahuatl, the language of my ancestors. "I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books." Borges Wednesday, May 25, 2005 Music of the Mill by Luis J. Rodriguez Pulitzer prize winning John Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath Music of the Mill is as well. Everyone knows about the Great Depression but how many people outside of the little South L.A. towns where the steel mill ruled for so many years and about the economical and social decline the closing of those mills caused? Billy Joel sang about Allentown and the whole nation was made aware of the loss of mills in Pennsylvania. Who sang for Huntington Park, Maywood, and South Gate, those little sad towns in Los Angeles? Luis J. Rodriguez has now done so. In Music of the Mill The mill itself is portrayed as dangerous, toxic yet seductive monster. Mr. Rodriguez brings the reader into the mill; you feel its heat, its intensity, its ugliness and its beauty. From workers grilling their carne asada on an ingot to the racial tensions and divisions, you are in that mill. You can feel the tension, smell the carne. People die in the mill, lose limbs, breath in bad fumes. Workers turn to alcohol, drugs to stay awake in order to work more shifts. It is all too real. I grew up a Xicana in the shadow of Bethlehem Steel in the 1970s. I remember the men that would come home dirty, black from the fire of the mill and tired. I remember when the mill closed and the rise in drug use; sales of such and violence began to escalate in the barrios where I was now raising my children. I never really tied the two instances together until I read this most remarkable novel.

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Luis J. Rodriguez Location San Fernando, CA Website www.luisjrodriguez.com You have been writing for many years. In my opinion, your writing has not only given you the opportunity to broadcast your voice in the world of literature, it has also resurrected many other lives and voices that otherwise would have gone unheard. For the readers that are not familiar, who is Luis Rodriguez? Luis Rodriguez: I am a voice in the dark, that dark place in America that we'd rather not acknowledge or understand. The barrio dark. The border dark. The criminal and drug-use dark. The peripheral dark of "minority" politics and working class dark. As writer - poetry, fiction, children's books, essay, memoir, journalism, screenplay - I have many genres from which to draw out the stories, the images, the meanings from this dark. America is too often idealized, whitewashed, scrubbed clean with lies. America has some great values, great ideals, but it's been built on some dark, painful, murderous history. I have to speak from that history. Not to destroy, not to dismiss, not to decry - but to dance. My name - Luis J. Rodriguez - is as much a part of American history and mystery as anyone else. Which book did you first have published, and what was your initial reaction to finding out you would be publishing a book for the first time?

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20. Luis J. Rodriguez From HarperCollins Publishers luis J. rodriguez is the author of several critically acclaimed books, including Always Running, The Republic of East L.A., and Hearts and Hands, http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/21381/Luis_J_Rodriguez/index.aspx

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