from Poems Across the Pavement - 1989 Running to America Somebody Was Breaking Windows Rosalie has Candles The Monster Palmas Piece by Piece The Calling from The Concrete River - 1991 Watts Bleeds Tia Chucha Night Dance-Watts 1975-78 The Concrete River The Rooster Who Thought It Was a Dog Black Mexican The Bull's Eye Inn Waiting Don't Read That Poem! Jarocho Blues Jesus Saves The Blast Furnace They Come To Dance Carrying My Tools Bethlehem No More Every Road Every Breath, a Prayer Lips from Trochemoche - 1998 Meeting the Animal in Washington Square Park Victory, Victoria, My Beautiful Whisper Catacombs to the police officer who refused to sit in the same room as my son because he's a "gang banger" A Tale of Los Lobos Woman of the First Street Bridge The Rabbi and the Cholo Cinco de Mayo Civilization Fire Red Screams A Fence of Lights Next Generation At Quenchers Bar When You Said Goodbye The Face on the Radio The Object of Intent Is To Get There Untouched A Father's Lesson Francisca Suburbia Believe me when I say ... Reflection on El Train Glass The Quiet Woman Questions for Which You Are Always the Answer "Eva sitting on the curb with pen and paper before the torturers came to get her" !Seguro Que Hell Yes! Poem for Shakespeare & Company !Yo Voy Ami! Rant, Rave & Ricochet Cloth of Muscle and Hair The Old Woman of Merida from Notes of a Bald Cricket New Poems My Name's Not Rodriguez Coal-Seller in White Dress The Cockroaches I Married Mickey Mouse Pancakes My Nature Is Hunger Exiled in the Country of Reason Passersby Listening to Return To Forever's "Romantic Warrior" with Susana in an Empty Room of my Recently Rented Echo Park Apartment Mother by the Lake Suicide Sweet Sometimes a Man Comes Time and Nature Loving What You Leave Ritchie Valens Doesn't Sing Here Anymore Mexika Science The Gold Beneath Our Feet Banned Fat The Chuskas- Navajo Land 1998 Rez Dogs Untitled !Si, Se Puede! Yes, We Can! Chuparosa (Hummingbird) Nightfall: Poems to Ponder in War and Uncertainty The Wanton Life
Luis J. Rodriguez has published fifteen books of poetry, children's literature, fiction, and nonfiction. He is best known for his 1993 memoir of gang life, Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. His awards include a Finalist for the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award, a Lila Wallace Readers Digest Writers Award, a PEN Josephine Miles Literary Award, a Paterson Poetry Prize, a Carl Sandburg Literary Award, and fellowships from the Sundance Institute, the Lannan Foundation, the City of Los Angeles, the City of Chicago, the California Arts Council, and the Illinois Arts Council, among others. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti in 2014 chose Luis J. Rodriguez as Poet Laureate of the city. Luis is also Visiting Scholar at California State University, Northridge.
This poetry is of the barrio yet stubbornly refuses to be confined in it-Rodriguez's perceptive gaze and storyteller's gift transport his world across neighborhood boundaries."-Publishers Weekly on Trochemoche
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