The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), April 5th, 2006
Byline: Robert McClendon Contributing writer
Luis J. Rodriguez was a menace to society as a youth in the Los Angeles street gang Los Locos. Today, in his early 50s, he's a prize-winning poet and author.
The gangster-turned-poet spoke to 1,000 Syracuse middle-school pupils Tuesday morning in Syracuse University's Hendricks Chapel. Tuesday night, he presented another lecture, this one open to the public. His visit was the last installment in the 2005-06 Syracuse University Lecture Series.
"I shot people. I stabbed people. I firebombed people's homes," he told the pupils visiting the SU camp...
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