Jimmy Santiago Baca on "A Place to Stand"

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Jimmy Santiago Baca was illiterate and in a maximum security prison for selling drugs. He taught himself to read and fell in love with words.  Today he’s a champion of the International Poetry Slam, and the author of four books of verse.  Now he’s written a memoir, “A Place to Stand.”  Santiago Baca talks with Steve Paulson about the power of poetry and reads some of his own verse.