We are a living entity made of parts and will continue to grow! Jimmy Santiago Baca Jimmy Santiago Baca was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Raised by his grandmother and later sent to an orphanage, he became a runaway by age 13. It was after Baca was sentenced to five years in a maximum security prison that he made …
SMASHING THE PIPELINE FROM SCHOOL TO PRISON
Ghost Ranch, NM – August 31-September 4, 2015 The history of the West is enshrined with harrowing injustice and violence that I internalized. To survive as a child I challenged the colonial darkness that consumed my family. I noted very early on that my family flailed in the darkness, and the shadows attracted me because I wanted to free them …
Cedar Tree Poetics
“Cedar Tree came about when my wife and I were hiking in the forest one day and a gusher thunderstorm came out of nowhere, lightning and thunder and downpours. We found refuge under a cedar tree.” – Jimmy Santiago Baca The mission of cedar tree poetics is to improve the human condition; to advance knowledge through compassion and literacy, through …