 and the books of leading Chicago poets, later doing the same on a national level.His readings and talks extended to prisons around the country as well as homeless shelters, migrant camps, Native American reservations, public & private schools, colleges, universities, libraries, and conferences.In 1993, Curbstone Press of Willimantic, CT published Luis's first memoir, "Always Running" as a cautionary tale for his son Ramiro, who joined a Chicago street gang at the age of fifteen.