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Trini and I have another Hummingbird Cricket Hour podcast, this time on critical thinking for critical times. You can put "Hummingbird Cricket Hour" on your browser and we pop up on various podcast sites. Here's one: hchpodcast.libsyn.com/critical-think…

Resistance & Liberation: Los Angeles Latine Poets Speak Out! Today from 6 pm to 9 pm at Plaza de Cultura Y Artes on Main Street (across from Olvera Street). This is an offsite reading for the Associated Writers & Writing Programs Conference going on at the L.A. Convention Center.

Full Stop online magazine just published a review by Rey Rodriguez of Luis J. Rodriguez's bilingual poetry collection "Todos los caminos llevan a casa" (All Roads Lead Home). Here's the review: full-stop.net/2025/04/16/rev…

Go to Spotify. Put in my name "Luis J. Rodriguez." You'll hear poetry with music from my CD "My Name's Not Rodriguez." Also my poem "Civilization" with music by Italian Hip Hop artist Flycat. And me reading poems by Los Lobos member Louie Perez from his book "Good Morning Aztlan"

Please come to this special event at East Los Angeles College this Tuesday, April 29, at noon. I'll be joined by the amazing artist and good friend Fabian Debora, among others.

I'm honored to be part of this reading in Chicago at the Poetry Foundation on May 22 to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Tia Chucha Press anthology "Power Lines" featuring some of Chicago's best poets: poetryfoundation.org/events/1652764…

On May 13, I'll be part of the Milestone Literary Magazine Celebration at East Los Angeles College, where I took classes as an aspiring writer in my mid-20s. Milestone published some of my early works. I'm back to honor the magazine's role in helping emerging writers.

I just wrote my first note on Substack substack.com/profile/336411…

A Complete Human Being is a Complete Artist open.substack.com/pub/barkingroo…

A reminder about my new Substack post. It's called "A Complete Human Being is a Complete Artist" about the vitality of the arts in all our lives. To access this go to barkingroosterinc.substack.com.

This is an event with Get Lit-Words Ignite that you all should get tickets for now. "If I Awaken in Los Angeles" is a multi-media powerhouse program at the Ford Amphitheater, August 1. I have a poem incorporated in this. Don't miss it! theford.com/events/perform…

Please listen to this podcast of "Rising Up with Sonali" as Sonali Kolhatkar interviews Luis J. Rodriguez on "The Real Story Behind MS-13". Although this interview is for paid subscribers, please become one to get some of the best information anywhere: risingupwithsonali.com/2025_05_06_lui…

Here's my newest Substack blogpost, "Meaning or Mere Being: When Mentoring Works," honoring an important mentor in my life and how such people are vital in our lives. Go to barkingroosterinc.substack.com to read this. Please subscribe if you can.

Here is my latest Substack blog on "Strategic Creativity: A Time to Renew" on how to challenge effectively and for the long-haul the fascist drive in our country. Go to barkingroosterinc.substack.com/p/strategic-cr…

The Four Key Connections | Luis Rodriguez | TEDxVeniceBeach youtu.be/uAmXK9XXJZ0?si… via YouTube

Trini and I have another Hummingbird Cricket Hour podcast in midst of our struggle today against the ICE raids, the militarization of Los Angeles during vastly peaceful protests, and the rise of anti-deportation rallies throughout the country: hchpodcast.libsyn.com/inviting-revol…

Here's my latest Substack blogpost on how escalation is part of anti-protests and war: barkingroosterinc.substack.com/p/escalation

My daughter Andrea is still hospitalized and will need assistance with care but also for her son Jack (my grandson) and other things she can't take care of while she's incapacitated. The family has started a gofundme campaign to help with the needs: gofund.me/74b1f3d0

My latest Substack blog post on a Borderless Imagination: barkingroosterinc.substack.com/p/a-borderless…

Here's my latest Substack blogpost on "The Holistic Nature of Fighting Fascism": barkingroosterinc.substack.com/p/the-holistic…