Thanks to the following publications and venues where the new poems first appeared:
“My Nature Is Hunger” in Power Lines: A Decade of Poetry from Chicago’s Guild Complex, edited by Julia Parson-Nesbitt, Luis J. Rodríguez & Michael Warr (Chicago: Tía Chucha Press, 1999), Other Voices Anthology (online); Blackmailpress 7 (online).
“Mickey Mouse Pancakes” in Rattle Magazine, Fall 1999, Los Angeles; Other Voices Anthology (online).
“The Cockroaches I Married” and other poems read on the air, WBEZ-FM, Chicago “848” Program; Other Voices Anthology (online).
“My Name’s Not Rodríguez” in The Progressive magazine; Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, edited by Tony Medina and Louise Reyes Rivera (NYC: Three Rivers Press, 2001); Cantos Al Sexto Sol: An Anthology of Aztlanahuac Writings, edited by Roberto Rodríguez, Patrisia Gonzalez and Cecilio Garcia Camarillo (San Antonio: Wings Press, 2002); Other Voices Anthology; Blackmailpress 7, K-Code: The Real Italian Lifestyle & Culture Magazine.
“¡Si, Se Puede! Yes, We Can!” in the children’s book ¡Si, Se Puede! Yes, We Can! written by Diane Cohn, illustrated by Francisco Delgado (El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press, 2002).
“Passersby” in Other Voices Anthology.
“Exiled in the Country of Reason” in Other Voices Anthology; Blackmailpress 7.
“Poems to Ponder in Times of War and Uncertainty” in Poets Against the War (online); Long Shot Magazine; Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture (online).
“Someday a Man Will Come” in the People’s Tribune/Tribuno del Pueblo.
The selected poems appeared in the following books:
Poems across the Pavement (Chicago: Tía Chucha Press, 1989); The Concrete River (Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1991); Trochemoche (Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1998)
New and selected poems appeared in the following recordings: My Name’s Not Rodríguez by Luis J. Rodríguez and Seven Rabbit, spoken word/music CD for Dos Manos Records (Los Angeles, 2002); Live at Beyond Baroque 2 with Luis J. Rodríguez, Viggo Mortensen, Marvin Bell, Patricia Smith, Saul Williams, Regie Gibson, Mike McGee, Georganne Deen, Mark Eleveld (LA: two-disc CD, Perceval Press/EM Press, Fall 2004); From the Earth to the Sky: Music and Spoken Word to Benefit Tía Chucha’s Centro Cultural (LA., Dos Manos Records, 2004); Una Demanda Alla Risposta (A Question for an Answer) with Flycat for V.S.O.P/Skill to Deal Records (Milan, Italy, 1998); Poetics of Peace: Vital Voices in Troubled Times with Alice Walker, Luis Rodríguez, Michael Meade, Jack Kornfield & Orland Bishop (Mosaic Audio, Seattle, WA, 2002); Snake in the Heart: Poems and Music by Chicago Spoken Word Performers for Tía Chucha Press (Chicago, 1994); In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry for Rhino Records/Word Beat, 1996; and The Poetry Box (L.A., Shout! Factory, 2005).
Thanks to the numerous books, magazines, anthologies, and other publications where these poems have also appeared, including The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, edited by Alan Kaufman (New York City: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1999); Prom Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900–2002, edited by Ishmael Reed (NYC: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2003); The Spoken Word Revolution (Slam, Hip Hop & the Poetry of a New Generation), edited by Mark Eleveld (Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2003); Poets One: Anthology of World Poetry Festival in Heidelberg, Germany, 2003, and others.
Thanks to the US Embassy in Berlin, Germany for publishing a special edition chapbook of new poems, My Nature is Hunger, for the Re-Writing America: Multi-Ethnic Perspectives in Literature and the Media, Blaubeuren, Germany, November 2004. A special thanks to Sher Zabaszkiewicz and Matt Cohen for creating hand-made art books and broadsides for the new poems, including the limited-numbered Seven and Dos Mujeres art books, with translations by Jorge Cabrera and Trini Rodríguez.
And my humble gratitude to the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund, the Lannan Foundation, the Hispanic Heritage Foundation, the Illinois Arts Council, the Illinois Association of Teachers of English, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, the North Carolina Arts Council, the California Arts Council, the National Association for Poetry Therapy, the Wisdom in Action Foundation, the Border Book Festival, PEN Oakland, Chicago Artists Abroad, PEN International’s “Next Generation” selection during the 54th World Congress in Montreal and Toronto, the Poetry Center of San Francisco State University, among others, for fellowships, residencies and awards during the writing of many of these poems.