Luis J. Rodriguez is the acclaimed author of three poetry collections, “Poems Across the Pavement,” “The Concrete River,” and “Trochemoche.”  He’s the founder of Tia Chucha Press, publishing socially-engaged and emerging poets for 15 years.  He also helped create Tia Chucha’s Cafe Cultural—a bookstore, cafe, art gallery, performance space, workshop center, and cyber cafe in the Northeast San Fernando Valley section of LA.  He can be reached at his website: www.luisjrodriguez.com.