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POETRY
IS LIFE
Jimmy Santiago Baca is an award-winning American poet and writer of Chicano descent.
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While serving a five-year sentence in a maximum security prison, he learned to read and began to turn his life around, eventually emerging as a prolific artist of the spoken and written word.
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He is a winner of the prestigious International Award for his memoir, “A Place to Stand,” the story of which is now also a documentary by the same title. read more...
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Jimmy Santiago Baca, photographed by Gloria Graham during the video taping of Add-Verse, 2004

A suite of effective poetry-driven tools for teachers, writers, at-risk students, inmates, and ex-convicts transitioning back into society.
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Filmed by multiple Emmy winner Chris Schueler
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Poems Written and Read by Jimmy Santiago Baca
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High Definition Video and Audio

FOR EDUCATORS
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High-Quality MP3 Streaming & Downloads
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Poems Written and Read by Jimmy Santiago Baca
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Never-before Released Material
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