2014
Search results
Jimmy Santiago Baca. 1952 –. Read poems by this poet. Jimmy Santiago Baca was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on January 2, 1952. Abandoned by his parents at the age of two, he lived with one of his grandparents for several years before being placed in an orphanage.
Learn more about award winning poet, novelist, screenwriter, and educator Jimmy Santiago Baca.
Jimmy Santiago Baca is a self-taught poet, and memoirist, who learned to write in prison. Since then he has won international awards for his work. Poems Cite. Jimmy Santiago Baca has one of the most unique stories of any modern poet.
Jan 3, 2014 · Jimmy Santiago Baca began writing poetry while he was serving a five-year sentence in prison. His new anthology tells the story of his journey to becoming a celebrated Chicano poet.
Aug 8, 2017 · Jimmy Santiago Baca was born in New Mexico of Indio-Mexican descent and spent his early years in an orphanage before he was sentenced to five years in a maximum security prison where he turned his life around through education and poetry.
Sep 4, 2015 · Jimmy Santiago Baca was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Raised by his grandmother and later sent to an orphanage, he became a runaway by age 13. It was after Baca was sentenced to five years in a maximum security prison that he made literacy his focus and learned to read and write.
His book-length poem sequence, Martin & Meditations on the South Valley (1989), is a southwestern narrative journey in which the main character is restored by contacts with land and heritage.
Related searches
