CANCELLED - Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande: A Reading by Jimmy Santiago Baca

Join us for a reading and conversation with acclaimed author Jimmy Santiago Baca. Born in New Mexico of Chicano and Apache descent, Jimmy Santiago Baca was raised first by his grandmother and was later sent to an orphanage. A runaway at age thirteen, it was after Baca was sentenced to five years in a maximum security prison at the age of twenty-one that he began to turn his life around: there he learned to read and write and found his passion for poetry. 

Mr. Baca's works include Bound by Honor (Blood In, Blood Out), Hollywood Pictures/Disney, and The Lone Wolf! The Story of Pancho Gonzalez. He is also the author of A Place to Stand, Healing Earthquakes, C-Train & Thirteen Mexicans, Black Mesa Poems, Martin & Meditations on the South Valley, and Immigrants in Our Own Land. His numerous accomplishments include the Pushcart Prize, the American Book Award, the National Poetry Award, the International Hispanic Heritage Award, and, for his memoir A Place To Stand, the prestigious International Award. Baca's most recent works are The Importance of a Piece of Paper (Grove/Atlantic) and Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande (New Directions). In 2003 he received a PhD in Literature from the University of New Mexico.