Poet Jimmy Santiago Baca to read at Auburn
The Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project in the College of Liberal Arts will welcome renowned writer and poet Jimmy Santiago Baca to Auburn University on Wednesday, April 1. As part of National Poetry Month, Baca will give a reading and public discussion surrounding his work. At 11 a.m. in 2222 Student Center, Baca will give a lecture on literacy, poetry and social justice. At 3:30 p.m. at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Baca will give a poetry reading. All events are free and open to the public. Born in New Mexico of Indio-Mexican descent, Baca was raised first by his grandmother and later sent to an orphanage. A runaway at age 13, it was after Baca was sentenced to five years in a maximum security prison that he began to turn his life around; he learned to read and write and unearthed a voracious passion for poetry. Instead of becoming a hardened criminal, he emerged from prison a writer.
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