Sat 9/24 @ 2PM
“Poet of the people” Jimmy Santiago Baca is first up in Cleveland Public Library’s 2011 – 2012 Writers & Readers Series. Hear him speak Sat 9/24 @ 2PM.
A little about him: “Jimmy Santiago Baca is an award-winning poet and author who learned to read and write while incarcerated in the Arizona prison system on drug charges from 1973-1978.
“Born in New Mexico of Indio-Mexican descent, Baca had a troubled childhood and was a runaway at the age of thirteen. He eventually found himself serving time in a maximum security prison and it was there, he says, that he “was shaken by the voices of Neruda and Lorca.”
“He has since gone on to publish ten volumes of poetry, a collection of short stories and a novel, a memoir, a children’s book and two collections of stories for adolescents.”
http://CPL.org/WritersandReaders.aspx