ABSTRACT
In 1996, I choose to start something. To put some ideas down on paper and tell people about it. To act on what I told people. To stick to it.
This is the story.
How to start a nonprofit and sustain it for 20 years in the San Francisco Bay Area during the height of the dot.com boom and bust and re-boom and re-bust and whatever it is called now. When you’re twenty-six. With no money. And the nonprofit is about kids and poetry. Brown kids. And poetry. Which everyone assures you there is no money for. And wait, they ask, what is it that you do exactly? You do that full time? Really?
