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Jimmy Santiago Baca was born on 2 January, 1952 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S., is an American poet and educator (born 1952). Discover Jimmy Santiago Baca's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?
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Jimmy Santiago Baca (born January 2, 1952) is an American poet, memoirist, and screenwriter from New Mexico.
Baca was born in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in 1952.
Abandoned by his parents at the age of two, he lived with one of his grandmothers for several years before being placed in an orphanage.
At the age of 13 he ran away and wound up living on the streets.
When he was 21, he was convicted on charges of drug possession and incarcerated.
He served five years in prison, three of them in isolation, and having expressed a desire to go to school (the guards considered this dangerous), he was put in the same area of the prison with the inmates on death row for a period of time before he was released.
During this time, Baca taught himself to read and write, and he began to compose poetry.
He sold these poems to fellow inmates in exchange for cigarettes.
A fellow inmate convinced him to submit some of his poems to the magazine Mother Jones, then edited by Denise Levertov.
Levertov printed Baca's poems and began corresponding with him, eventually finding a publisher for his first book.
The poet Will Inman published Mr. Baca's poetry in his 1977 anthology Fired Up with You: Poems of a Niagara Vision (Border Press), one of the earliest anthologies to include Jimmy Santiago Baca's poems.
Immigrants in Our Own Land, Baca's first major collection, was published by the Louisiana State University Press in 1979.
This early collection included "I Am Offering This Poem," a poem later reprinted in 1990's Immigrants in Our Own Land and Selected Early Poems and anthologized in The Seagull Book of Poems . In 1987, his semi-autobiographical minor epic in verse, Martin & Meditations on the South Valley, received the American Book Award for poetry, bringing Baca international acclaim and, in 1989, the Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature.
Baca is also the author of a collection of stories and essays, Working in the Dark: Reflections of a Poet of the Barrio (1992); a play, Los tres hijos de Julia (1991); a screenplay, Bound by Honor, which was released by Hollywood Pictures as Blood In Blood Out in 1993; he also published at the end of 1993 Second Chances.
His "memoir", A Place to Stand (2001), chronicles his troubled youth and the five-year jail-stint that brought about his personal transformation.
Baca's poetry collections include C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans: Dream Boy's Story (Grove Press, 2002), Healing Earthquakes (2001), Set This Book on Fire (1999), In the Way of the Sun (1997), Black Mesa Poems (1995), Poems Taken from My Yard (1986), and What's Happening (1982).
In 2003, Baca appeared in an episode of Def Poetry Jam.
In 2004 Baca started a non-profit organization, Cedar Tree, Inc., that supports literary workshops for inmates and troubled youth, through charitable donations.
As well as writing workshops, Cedar Tree has produced two documentary films Clamor en Chino and Moving the River Back Home.
The organization employs ex-offenders as interns.
Baca's most recent novel is A Glass of Water (2009).
He published an original essay in 2013 called, "The Face," in ebook form with Restless Books, along with digital editions of his Breaking Bread with the Darkness poetry volumes.
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Santiago Baca wrote the screenplay for a Hollywood production, Blood In Blood Out.
Baca also appeared as an actor in the film and as one of its producers.
A film based on Baca's memoir A Place to Stand, directed by Daniel Glick, was released in 2014.
The film was produced by Gabriel Baca, David Gruban, and Andres Salazar The creators of the movie also made a school curriculum to strengthen and highlight the morals within Baca's life story, containing a workbook and films.