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The New CD HOPE 5 MILES by Joaquin Zihuatanejo, features 18 poems and is just under and hour in length.  The CD features the following poems:

1. Reinventing the Enemy's Language

2. HOPE 5 MILES

3. Poem for Keri

4. It Ends the Way It Begins

5. A Revision of Street Poet Originally Written by GNO

6. 17 Haiku

7. The Baby Jesus Loves Him Some Texas

8. 2nd Revision of Speaker for the Dead

9. Juvie Poems

10. An Excerpt from the Gospel according to My Tio Juan

11. For the Jewel Thieves

12. Just After Night Falls

13. Flawed

14. Negative

15. Incongruent

16. It Happens by Fractions featuring Aiyana Zihuatanejo

17. Forgetting Jude

18. Final Exam for My Father 

Child of the Hood Days is Joaquin Zihuatanejo's throw back or homage to his first CD Barrio Songs, at times just as brutal and honest and hilarious as its predecessor.  The CD, which is just under an hour in length, features the following poems:

1. Bringing Back in the Day Back to Today

2. Beauty is a Crooked Smile

3. Sliding Doors, Frogs and How We Love Each Other

4. The King is Dead, Long Live the Prince

5. Un-Love Poem

6. House Fires

7. The Worst Book Report Like...Ever

8. If Yo Sh!t was Togetha' 

9. Winter Poems

10. Child of Conquest

11. An excerpt from the forthcoming novel, Guerro

12. Mother Was the Name for God I Knew as a Child

13. Unwritten

14. About the Author

Bonus Track: Nevermind, which was written and conceptualized by natasha carrizosa featuring natasha carrizosa, Joaquin Zihuatanejo and Chancelier Xero Skidomre

of fire and rain is a testimony of life/love that spans from the ghettos of The West Indies to the barrio of the Lower East Side.  This CD, which National Poetry Slam Champion Jonathan "GNO" White hails a "masterpiece" was written by natasha carrizosa and Joaquin Zihuatanejo.  On the CD they perform individual poems of their own and of each other and many times they perform duet or team pieces.  The CD, which is just under and hour in length, features the following poems:

1. the word

2. of fire and rain

3. Speaking In Tongues

4. blank page beautiful

5. Let Me Be Beautiful

6. sudan

7. Elephant

8. faheem williams

9. silence

10. ghetto youths

11. immigrant lives

12. babel's bottom step

13. Spit It Out

14. at rosie's table

15. Speaker for the Dead

16. royal blue

17. What If

18. the light

19. What I Would Say to Them

Bonus Tracks:

20. The Television Will Not Be Revolutionized

21. Super Villains...Puta!

22. As Yet to Be Titled by Aida

Live at Longwood was recorded live at Longwood University and features over one hour and three minutes of poetry.  This is Joaquin in his element, on a stage in front of students and is a must for fans of Joaquin's work.  The CD contains the following poems:

1. Intro

2. Poem for Trey

3. Abuelo's Garden

4. What Marco Said in Class

5. Elephant

6. Black Sabbath Blaring in My Classroom

7. Poem for Jon

8. Why Don't You Write Me a Love Poem?

9. Sliding Doors, Frogs, and How We Love each Other

10. Beauty is a Crooked Smile

11. Spit It Out

12. Tu Eres Tu

13. Poem for Colton

14. Poem for Aaron

15. Mr. Z, Where Do You Get Your Inspiration For Poems?

16. If Yo' Sh!t Was Togetha'

17. Pat Robertson's Testicles

18. Poem for Keri

19. Stand Up and Be Heard

Stand Up and Be Heard is Joaquin Zihuatanejo's second CD and is a collection of poems inspired by the seven years he spent as an award winning high school English teacher.  This collection is a must for both students and educators alike, but anyone who enjoys narrative poems that are filled with heart and compassion will love this collection.  The CD, which has over 50 minutes of poetry, features the following poems:

1. Poem for Trey

2. First Poem

3. Baking Bread with Abuela

4. Poem for Aaron

5. Chunkin' tha' Deuce

6. Poem for Colton

7. Open House, Closed Mind-or-Poem for the Ambiguously Ethnic Teacher

8. Che, Tomas, and the Golden Carp

9. Something That Lives Between the Two

10. Elephant

11. Spoiled Milk

12. Wasn't Walt Whitman Gay?

13. Poem for Jon

14. Equilibrium

15. The Misunderstood You

16. Carving Poets Out of Children

17. Hallways, Faceless Men, and Poets

18. Unnatural Habitat

19. Stand Up and Be Heard

20. Torch Bearer

Bonus Tracks:

21. This is a Suit (Live from the Urbana Poetry Slam in New York City)

22. 19 Mexicans (Live from the Spa City Slam in Hot Springs, Arkansas)

Barrio Songs is the first spoken word CD by World Poetry Slam Champion Joaquin Zihuatanejo.  This is where it all begins.  These are his first poems that capture a youth that existed somewhere between the streets of the barrio and the dream wanderings of a boy who found refuge in a world of stories and poems.  Sometimes brutal but always honest, your Joaquin Zihuatanejo spoken word CD collection would not be complete without this one.  Barrio Songs, which is over an hour in length, features the following poems:

1. Barrio Poem

2. Introduction

3. Abuelo's Garden

4. What You Have Taken This Poem Redeems

5. Baking Bread with Abuela

6. Dancing with Skeletons

7. Unafraid of Eternity

8. Baptism

9. I of the Storm

10. 19 Mexicans

11. mother was the moon and father was the sun

12. Tu Eres Tu

13. Poem Written from the Steps of Roy Hernandez' Barbershop, Long Since Closed Down

14. Starve

15. We Were the Children Without Tears

16. silence

17. Flores de Papel para los Muertos

18. Transubstantiation

19. Celestial Bodies

20. This is a Suit

Bonus Tracks:

21. This is a Suit (Live)

22. 19 Mexicans (Live)

Barrio Songs is the first collection of poems by award winning poet and educator Joaquin Zihuatanejo.  This new edition of the collection of poems is over 100 pages in length and features a Spanish translation of all of Joaquin's early poems done by the writer, poet, translator, and educator Marco Antonio Huerta. Poems in this collection include: Winter Poems, Abuelo's Garden, 19 Mexicans, Tu Eres Tu, Sliding Doors, Frogs and How We Love Each Other, Barrio Poem, and many others.

of fire and rain is a collection poems by award winning poets natasha carrizosa and Joaquin Zihuatanejo.  It has been called a testimony of life/love that spans from the ghettos of The West Indies to the barrio of the Lower East Side.  The collection which includes 43 poems and over 70 pages of poetry also includes an introduction by Rudolfo Anaya, author of Bless Me, Ultima and Alburquerque, who many consider the grandfather of Chicano literature. 

BARBARIC YAWPS BEST OF JOAQUIN ZIHUATANEJO FOR STUDENTS is exactly what it sounds like, simply the best of Joaquin's first six CDs on one limited edition BEST OF CD.  Yes, this will be a limited edition.  Only 500 of these CDs will be made up and then this one goes back in the vault.  These are the show stoppers, the most requested, the ones that win slams and get standing o's.  But more importantly these are for students, the middle school and high school students that I am blessed to work with. These are the ones they call the beautiful ones, the ones that shake you and stay with you.  These are the ones that change you, that make you feel and think and want to live more deeply. BARBARIC YAWPS is just under an hour in length and includes the following poems:

1. Abuelo's Garden

2. 19 Mexicans

3. This is a Suit

4. Baking Bread with Abuela

5. Elephant

6. Poem for Aaron

7. Speaking in Tongues

8. What if

9. House Fires

10. Reinventing the Enemy's Language

11. Child of Conquest

12. It Ends the Way It Begins

13. Final Exam for My Father

Bonus Tracks:

14. An exerpt from the forthcoming novel, Guerro: Tres, Abuelo's Garden)

15. Let Me Call Her My Daughter (from the forthcoming collection of poems, 400)

16. Prayed Upon (Forgotten Puppet) (from the forthcoming collection of poems, 400)