Background
Rodriguez, Luis J. was born on July 9, 1954 in El Paso, Texas, United States. Son of Alfonso and Maria Estela (Jimenez) Rodriguez.
( Set in the Pilsen barrio of Chicago, this children's pi...)
Set in the Pilsen barrio of Chicago, this children's picture book gives a heartwarming message of hope. The heroine, América, is a primary school student who is unhappy in school until a poet visits the class and inspires the students to express themselves creatively-in Spanish or English. América Is Her Name emphasizes the power of individual creativity in overcoming a difficult environment and establishing self-worth and identity through the young girl América's desire and determination to be a writer. This story deals realistically with the problems in urban neighborhoods and has an upbeat theme: you can succeed in spite of the odds against you. Carlos Vázquez's inspired four-color illustrations give a vivid sense of the barrio, as well as the beauty and strength of the young girl América.
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( Tia Chucha Press started twenty-five years ago in Chica...)
Tia Chucha Press started twenty-five years ago in Chicago with the publication of Luis J. Rodriguez’s first book, Poems Across the Pavement. As founder/editor of the Press, Rodriguez has since published more than fifty poetry collections of quality crosscultural U.S. poets, as well as anthologies, chapbooks, and a CD. Tia Chucha Press is now a project of Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles, which Rodriguez helped create in 2001 with his wife Trini. We are honored to announce the 25th Anniversary Edition of Poems Across the Pavement—close to twenty poems of an emerging poet that began a prolific writing career.
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( Winner of the Pen Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Awar...)
Winner of the Pen Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, The Concrete River’s poems illuminate the gritty idiosyncrasies of immigrant life in urban barrios spanning Los Angeles to Chicago to Harlem. Luis J. Rodríguez lends powerful voices to those struggling to keep the gas on, to find work, and to keep love. Amidst his cast of characters, ranging from the drugged, to the eccentric, to the heartbroken, Rodríguez’s poems protest capitalism, violence, and exploitation while reveling in the potential of compassion.
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( In a stunning literary achievement -- with a power and ...)
In a stunning literary achievement -- with a power and scope reminiscent of John Steinbeck -- Luis J. Rodriguez captures the soul of a community in this epic novel about love, family, workers' rights, industrial strife, and cultural dislocation As the World War II cultural and industrial boom birthed a new California, a mighty steel industry rose with the potential to make modest dreams real for the workers willing to risk their lives in the mill's ferocious heat. For the Salcidos, the Nazareth mill became an engine for survival. Luis J. Rodriguez chronicles the simultaneous evolutions of this American family and the enormous enterprise that drove them -- from optimistic and cohesive units questing for stability and prosperity to disintegrating entities whose dreams have long since lost their luster. Spanning six decades, the novel conveys the drama, resilience, and humor of working-class life during a little-known era in American history.
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Rodriguez, Luis J. was born on July 9, 1954 in El Paso, Texas, United States. Son of Alfonso and Maria Estela (Jimenez) Rodriguez.
Certified, University of California, Berkeley, 1980.
Freelance poet, journalist, critic, since 1980; reporter, San Bernardino (California) Sun and other newspapers, 1980-1988; newswriter, reporter, WMAQ-AM All News Radio, Chicago, 1988-1992; typesetter, Liturgy Training Publs., Chicago, 1988-1992; director poetry press, Tía Chucha Press, Chicago, since 1989. Board directors Guild Complex Literature Arts, Chicago, since 1991.
( Winner of the Pen Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Awar...)
( Set in the Pilsen barrio of Chicago, this children's pi...)
( In a stunning literary achievement -- with a power and ...)
( Tia Chucha Press started twenty-five years ago in Chica...)
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Facilitator Youth Struggling for Survival, Chicago, since 1994. Elder, teacher.Mosaic Multicultural Foundation, Washon, Washington, since 1993. Participant Increase the Peace, Chicago, since 1995.
Member Poetry Society American, Academy American Poets, National Writers Union, Association American Cultures.
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Married Camila Barros, August 10, 1974 (divorced November 1979). Children: Ramiro Daniel, Andrea Victoria. Married María Trinidad Cárdenas, March 31, 1988.
Children: Ruben Joaquin, Juis Jacinto.