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Gronk was raised in East Los Angeles and lives in downtown LA. Gail Wronsky was raised in suburban Detroit and lives in the hippie haven of Topanga Canyon. But as artists they have found common ground--a shared commitment to the offbeat and the beautiful, to the slightly absurd and the slyly surreal.

In Cipota under the Moon, Claudia Castro Luna scores a series of poems as an ode to the Salvadoran immigrant experience in the United States. The poems are wrought with memories of the 1980s civil war and rich with observations from recent returns to her native country. Castro Luna draws a parallel between the ruthlessness of the war and the violence endured by communities of color in US cities; she shows how children are often the silent, unseen victims of state sanctioned and urban violence. In lush prose poems, musical tankas, and free verse, Castro Luna affirms that the desire for light and life outweighs the darkness of poverty, violence, and war. Cipota under the Moon is a testament to the men, women, and children who bet on life at all costs and now make their home in another language, in another place, which they, by their presence, change every day.

Seeking the most powerful healing practices to address the invisible wounds of war, Dr Ed Tick has led journeys to Vietnam for veterans, survivors, activists, and pilgrims for the past twenty years. This moving and revelatory collection documents the people, places, and experiences on these journeys.

Fallout is a poetry book about growing up in Japan and living in the United States.

An anthology of poems from one of California's high-security prisons brought to us through the creative writing classes of Luis J. Rodriguez, sponsored by the Alliance for California Traditional Arts. These are poems, essays, stories, and more mined from the depths of familial, racial, and economic violence.

The poems in Raised by Humans are about surviving childhood and colonization. This poetry collection is also about how indigenous people survive civilization and become readers and writers of the same alphabet that colonized their culture.

Tia Chucha Press started twenty-five years ago in Chicago with the publication of Luis J. Rodriguez's first book, Poems Across the Pavement. We are honored to announce the 25th Anniversary Edition of Poems Across the Pavement - close to twenty poems of an emerging poet that began a prolific writing career.

Louie Pérez is a musician and visual artist who has spent the last forty years as founding member and principal songwriter for the internationally acclaimed group Los Lobos. Working with David Hidalgo, Pérez has written more than four hundred songs. Many of these, along with poems and short stories as well as paintings, sketches, and photos, are collected in this personal, yet universally appealing volume.

As a child of Puerto Rican migrants on Chicago's Southside, Mayda's Del Valle's poetry utilizes part Spanish and English, part hip-hop and salsa, part Nas and Sonia Sanchez, part Shakespeare and John Leguizamo. It is inherited history as well as traditions remixed and invented. The beauty of this collection is that the poet manages to curate the flow such that the reader can DJ the poems.

The word vos/z, spoken in Salvadoran Spanish, means you and also means voice. If the word ends in s it means you; ending in z it means voice. Leticia Hernandez-Linares s poetry comes in somewhere between the S and Z, and it is, like bread, like music, for everyone. The way Leticia shares her stories speaks to the hybridity of the cultural and literary histories she hails from.

Ascension explores the delicacy and the fragility of all re-lationships; not just the romantic ones in nature, but the ones we have with our family, friends, community, city, politics, nature, history, and ourselves. Some poems focus on the complexity, nascency, and dissolution of these re-lationships while other verses are unapologetic with their celebration of the self.

Over twenty-five years ago two Americans, Dr. Diana Frade and her husband, Episcopalian Bishop Leo Frade, founded Our Little Roses Home for Girls in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. This book has essays by Spencer Reece and Luis J. Rodriguez as a backdrop to the girls' voices, and a foreword and afterword by poets Marie Howe and Richard Blanco.

Tells stories of six former gang members, drug addicts, and incarcerated men who lived through intense incidents of violence as well as shifts in populations, industry, and means-and how they overcame the odds. The book provides an argument for restorative justice, drug treatment, mental health services, spiritual practices, jobs training, and the arts instead of mass incarceration.

Presents an anthology of Central American writers living in the United States. This volume features work that captures the complexity of a rapidly growing community that shares certain experiences with other Latino groups, but also offers its own unique narrative.

This anthology features the vitality and variety of verse in the City of Angels. This is more about range then representation, voice more than volume. Los Angeles has close to 60% people of colour, 225 languages, and some of the richest and poorest persons in the US. Its poetry draws on imagery, words, stories, and imaginations that are vast, encompassing, a real "leaves of grass".

Alison Luterman's eye is on women, on children, in the streets and in the woods. Or at home alone in front of a desk. Her arms envelop love in whatever form it shows up: a cup of coffee from her husband, or the curve of a pregnant woman's belly as she walks around the lake in flip-flops. Luterman's poems are concerned with this and more.

This is a journey into and through womanhood-from preadolescence through menopause-and an exploration of women's relations with one another. In 4-Headed Woman, Adisa bravely explores and uncovers taboos about womanhood in a controlled and at times lyrical style laced with humour.

Melinda Palacio's newest poetry collection creates images that are at once heartbreaking and humorous. She tackles elemental subjects of family and childhood with the same depth and grace as that of myth making and death.

Painkiller is the final book in a trilogy of collections that started with The Weather That Kills (1995), followed by Femme du Monde (Tia Chucha, 1996). Of these three collections, the poems in Painkiller are the most emotional and intimate, and yet they are also the most universal as they look at the consequences of love found and lost; passions unleashed; terror from human conduct and the awesome power of natural disaster.

Prison writing has a long and illustrious history in the United States - home of the modern correctional system. From poems, to stories, to novel excerpts, to reportage, to personal essays - and a few drawings - this title depicts what can happen to people who are given, 'a chance to live'.

Contains poems that speak power in a woman's voice. This book unmasks the human heart in its many beguiling and compelling forms: passion, oppression, and liberation. It also evokes and re-imagines classical, biblical, Cherokee, Latino, and other American themes.

Includes poems which are a sociopolitical, cultural conglomeration of thoughts, reflections, observations, and experiences. This title depicts the dichotomy of being true to one's culture and language, while taking advantage of the educational opportunities.

Sometimes in our culture it seems that poetry has become tiny. It should be huge. It should be the whale that swallows the world and gives it back to us transformed. This work shapes passion on the page, utilizing a variety of personas, delving into the past of a person or a place, taking sides, making an argument.

A collection of poems that explores the spectrum of high and low points in a Chicano man's existence.

A collection of poems that seeks to answer 'Who am I and to whom do I belong?' These poems are about the process of shaping the identity of one girl who comes from ""a line of technicolor women"" who have ""honey/suckle buried freely in the folds of their flesh,"" a girl who comes from ""men who bit their tongues/ate dirt, dust and their pride"".

A young man witnessed his father's murder in a power play that unintentionally enabled the Aztecs to establish an empire. The young man, Nezahualcoyotl, became the philosopher king of Texcoco and wrote the most famous poem of pre-conquest Americas, ""Song of Flight."" This work is a long poem and, echoing Dante, it also narrates a trip to hell.

Contains poems of positions and relationships, shifting angles on received wisdom or cultural cliche, signifying in an age of raging information and vicious exploitation. The author tackles issues like racism and sexism, but with a poet's eye to details, moments, miracles, pains, and the wildness of the moon and stillness of water.