Tia Chucha Press Records

Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Midwest manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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Sánchez, Ricardo, 1941-1995

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Sometimes called the "grandfather of Chicano poetry," Ricardo Sánchez was a professor of creative writing and Chicano studies at Washington State University from 1991 until his death in 1995. He was born March 29, 1941 in El Paso, TX and raised in a neighborhood called "El barrio del diabolo." After serving in the U.S. Army he was convicted of armed robbery and sent to prison. In 1969, he received a Ford Foundation sponsorship as a Frederick Douglass Fellow in Journalism and in 1970 was employed...

Tia Chucha Press

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Small press publishing company founded in Chicago by poet and activist Luis Rodriguez. From the description of Tia Chucha Press records, 1989-1999. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 318605636 ...

Guild Complex (Chicago, Ill.)

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Rodríguez, Luis J., 1954-

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Warr, Michael, 1941-

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Alexander, Elizabeth, 1962-

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Elizabeth Alexander (b. May 30, 1962, Harlem, New York) grew up in Washington, D.C. Her father, Clifford Alexander, Jr., was Secretary of the Army and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chairman and her mother, Adele Logan Alexander, was a professor and writer. She graduated from Yale University and received her master's at Boston University, studying under poet Derek Walcott. She received her PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania. Alexander's first work was published in 1991. ...