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The Day's Hard Edge
A radically open interrogation of queer Chicano identity
Portrait of Us Burning
In his debut collection, Portrait of Us Burning, Sebastián H. Páramo explores how his Texan, working-class, Mexican American identity shapes his relationship to his half brother and to his family’s burning desire to become American.
The Stranger You Are
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.
Make a Poem Cry
Make a Poem Cry is an anthology of poems by inmates of a California high-security prison, written in classes given by former Los Angeles poet laureate Luis Rodríguez.
Dulce
Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize
Dulce is a debut poetry chapbook by acclaimed young poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo. His poetry invites readers to challenge and negate borders and categories between citizen and noncitizen, queer and straight, man and woman.
Counting Time Like People Count Stars
This book has essays by Reece and Luis J. Rodríguez as a backdrop to the girls’ voices, and a foreword and afterword by poets Marie Howe and Richard Blanco. Luis and his wife Trini, a poet, teacher, and indigenous healer, also helped teach at Our Little Roses and the Holy Family Bilingual School inside a walled compound in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. Here poetry and stories transcend the pain of loss that often goes unexpressed. Here poetry serves as a beacon of hope and inspiration in the shadows. Here poetry can save lives.
The Wandering Song
Tia Chucha Press is proud to reprint by popular demand this anthology of work by Central American writers living in the United States. The Wandering Song captures the complexity of a rapidly...
The University of Hip-Hop
Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize
The University of Hip Hop is a collection of eleven original poems by poet and performer Mayda Del Valle, winner of the National Poetry Slam Individual title and Nuyorican Poet's Café Grand Slam Championship and National Poetry Slam Individual title. The collection is an homage to her hometown of Chicago.
Poems Across the Pavement
Tia Chucha Press started twenty-five years ago in Chicago with the publication of Luis J. Rodriguez’s first book, Poems Across the Pavement. As founder/editor of the Press, Rodriguez...
Trochemoche
TROCHEMOCHE means helter-skelter in Spanish, and this book expresses the turmoil of the barrio and the various themes that drive Luis J. Rodríguez's poetry. Drawing on more than ten years of poems,...
The Day's Hard Edge
A radically open interrogation of queer Chicano identity
Portrait of Us Burning
In his debut collection, Portrait of Us Burning, Sebastián H. Páramo explores how his Texan, working-class, Mexican American identity shapes his relationship to his half brother and to his family’s burning desire to become American.
The Stranger You Are
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.
Make a Poem Cry
Make a Poem Cry is an anthology of poems by inmates of a California high-security prison, written in classes given by former Los Angeles poet laureate Luis Rodríguez.
Dulce
Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize
Dulce is a debut poetry chapbook by acclaimed young poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo. His poetry invites readers to challenge and negate borders and categories between citizen and noncitizen, queer and straight, man and woman.
Counting Time Like People Count Stars
This book has essays by Reece and Luis J. Rodríguez as a backdrop to the girls’ voices, and a foreword and afterword by poets Marie Howe and Richard Blanco. Luis and his wife Trini, a poet, teacher, and indigenous healer, also helped teach at Our Little Roses and the Holy Family Bilingual School inside a walled compound in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. Here poetry and stories transcend the pain of loss that often goes unexpressed. Here poetry serves as a beacon of hope and inspiration in the shadows. Here poetry can save lives.
The Wandering Song
Tia Chucha Press is proud to reprint by popular demand this anthology of work by Central American writers living in the United States. The Wandering Song captures the complexity of a rapidly...
The University of Hip-Hop
Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize
The University of Hip Hop is a collection of eleven original poems by poet and performer Mayda Del Valle, winner of the National Poetry Slam Individual title and Nuyorican Poet's Café Grand Slam Championship and National Poetry Slam Individual title. The collection is an homage to her hometown of Chicago.
Poems Across the Pavement
Tia Chucha Press started twenty-five years ago in Chicago with the publication of Luis J. Rodriguez’s first book, Poems Across the Pavement. As founder/editor of the Press, Rodriguez...
Trochemoche
TROCHEMOCHE means helter-skelter in Spanish, and this book expresses the turmoil of the barrio and the various themes that drive Luis J. Rodríguez's poetry. Drawing on more than ten years of poems,...