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Episode 1143 | Jimmy Santiago Baca: Words Have the Power to Change The World

“I started with one word and I never stopped.” Jimmy Santiago Baca talks with Megan Kamerick on New Mexico in Focus about reading the dictionary, writing poetry while incarcerated, and his experiences learning and educating others about the power of language. Baca’s poetry collection When I Walk Through That Door, I Am: An Immigrant Mother’s Quest for Freedom (Beacon Press, 2019) is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Jimmy Santiago Baca
When I Walk Through That Door, I Am: An Immigrant Mother's Quest for Freedom
Beacon Press
2019
interview
Page One
March/April 2019

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