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 has since published more than fifty poetry collections of quality crosscultural U.S. poets, as well as anthologies, chapbooks, and a CD. Tia Chucha Press is now a project of Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural &amp; Bookstore in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles, which Rodriguez helped create in 2001 with his wife Trini. 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.

Poems across the Pavement

Literature & Fiction

Rodríguez, Luis J.

Poetry

Tia Chucha

We Are All the Black Boy is a searing work of our time. Full of venom, full of hope, it is an evocative wordscape, tearing down barriers and probing the humanity in each of us. No holds barred poetry. A full appetite of insatiable truth.

We Are All the Black Boy

WARR, Michael

United States

In the 1960s, the live of black children were shaped by the glittery specter of Motown--a world of furious flash, undeniable glamour, and impossible romantic ideals. Some discovered the truth before it was too late. Others still drape their blues in the silken sounds, swirling in dimly-lit rooms in an endless, blinding slow dance. Patricia Smith, born and raised on Chicago's West Side, grew and thrived on the bright promise of Motown. Life According to Motown, the new collection by the five-time champion of Chicago's famous Uptown Poetry Slam, recounts in vivid imagery the lessons taught by and learned from Motown, as well as a thrilling collection of new works.

Life According to Motown

Smith, Patricia

Rooftop Piper

Hernández, David

Octavo, [20cm/8in], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 102

Stray Bullets: A Celebration of Chicago Saloon Poetry

Dancing in Your Mother's Skin&nbsp;is a book of poetry by Jean Howard and striking black and white photos by Alice Q. Hargrave.

Dancing in Your Mother's Skin

Howard, Jean

From Soweto to Chicago, the Middle Passage to the Final Solution, from intimate letters to scathing parodies, Dreams in Soy Sauce bristles and bubbles with verve, wit, intellect and honesty. In linguistically deft but accessible poetry, Preston singes the soul in his quest for wholeness.

Dreams in Soy Sauce

Preston, Rohan B.

Jangle

Buscani, Lisa

The poems from this book have been reprinted in a multitude of textbooks and anthologies, including the Norton Introduction to Literature. This is the last printing for this paperback book published by Tia Chucha Press, Chicago's acclaimed multicultural poetry publisher. The book is not available as an ebook. Get it while you can. . Crossing with the Light contains one of the most reprinted poems about the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII -- "In Response to Executive Order 9066." The poem has appeared in CELEBRATE AMERICA IN POETRY AND ART (Smithsonian) and many textbooks and anthologies.  The poem looks at this moment in American history through the eyes of a teenage girl. Another popular poem is "Notes for a Poem on Being Asian American," which has appeared in the NORTON INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE and NORTON INTRODUCTION TO POETRY.  Okita's poetry is widely reprinted every year in textbooks and anthologies.  .The book also looks at the poet's life as a gay man in poems like "When Frank Walks In" and "Where the Boys Were."  This last poem was inspired by the AIDS crisis.  There is often humor in the poems, sometimes a sense of wonder.  Other titles included:  "Mysteries of a Bowling Alley," "Letters I Never Wrote," and "Poem for the Unnamed."  The Amazon page used to let visitors to Look Inside but it hasn't worked in a while.  .If you enjoy Okita's poetry, you may want to take a peek at his award-winning, debut novel THE PROSPECT OF MY ARRIVAL.  It was a finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards and is available on Amazon in both kindle and trade paperback.  Okita was named an "Author to Watch" by Best Indie Book Awards for his second novel, THE HOPE STORE.  It's about the first store in the world to sell hope over the counter, the customers who were transformed by it, and the controversies that ensued.Author site:  DwightOkita.com. NOTE:  Sometimes Amazon carries this book, sometimes it doesn't. Another way to purchase remaining copies of Crossing with the Light is to visit:  tiachucha.org/bookstore

Crossing with the Light

Okita, Dwight

"Marvin Tate's Schoolyard of Broken Dreams reaches out, punches, grabs, wrestles to the ground, rises and stomps in an original manner. His is a voice in contemporary poetry which dares to pry from beneath the concrete places over it by history and sing." --Sterling D. Plumpp, author of Blues Narrative

Schoolyard of Broken Dreams

Tate, Marvin

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