Prison Poetry Workshop
Sending radio waves through prison walls we reach an audience with content that may change their life. The Prison Poetry Workshop is the only national radio series linking prisoners to the outside world through the power of poetry. As we listen to these poems we realize they hold a deep significance to our understanding of American culture and its tradition of democratic arts.
Prison Poetry Workshop
PPW 02: Luis Rodriguez
Writer and Latino activist Luis J. Rodriguez was born in El Paso and grew up in East L.A. We went to talk Luis Rodriguez simply because he, and his writing, was referenced by so many of the incarcerated writers we met and interviewed along the way to making Prison Poetry Workshop. The youth in D.C. central had thumbed copies of his best-known work, Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. and his name came up at facilities across the country.
You can learn more about Rodriguez writing at his website and you should certainly visit the Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural in Sylmar, CA.