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Luis Javier Rodriguez (born 1954) is an American poet, novelist, journalist, critic, and columnist. He was the 2014 Los Angeles Poet Laureate. [1] Rodriguez is recognized as a major figure in contemporary Chicano literature, [2] identifying himself as a native Xicanx writer. [3]
Apr 12, 2023 · Luis J. Rodriguez’s account of his first 18 years — from El Paso to Watts, Reseda to the Lomas barrio in South San Gabriel — has long drawn praise and criticism for its unflinching look at...
Luis J. Rodriguez is an acclaimed poet, novelist, journalist, and activist. Rodriguez has penned 16 books spanning poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and children’s literature, notably the best-selling memoirs Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. (Simon & Schuster, 1994) and It Calls You Back:…
History. The Luis J. Rodriguez Story--From Troubled Youth to the Poet Laureate of Los Angeles. By the year 2000, Luis J. Rodriguez was given the Dine name of Naayee' Neezghanii on the Navajo Nation around two years after Anthony Lee, a medicine man, and his wife Delores spiritually adopted Luis’s wife, Trini--and consequently the whole family.
Feb 9, 1993 · By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East Los Angeles gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests and then watched with increasing fear as gang life claimed friends and family members.
Welcome to the website of Luis J. Rodriguez. From 2014-2016, Luis served as the official Poet Laureate of Los Angeles. For Luis poetry is soul talk, a prophetic act, a powerful means to enlarge one's presence in the world.
Feb 10, 2020 · Luis J. Rodriguez is former L.A. poet laureate and author of “From Our Land to Our Land.” (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) By Luis J. Rodriguez. Feb. 10, 2020 7 AM PT. The Los Angeles...
