 The following year, Touchstone Books/Simon & Schuster released the paperback.In 1994, Luis became a poet/teacher for men's conferences sponsored by the Mosaic Multicultural Foundation, founded by mythologist/storyteller Michael Meade, and co-founded Youth Struggling for Survival (YSS) to work with gang and non-gang youth and their families.His son Ramiro and his daughter Andrea were also founding members.