From his tough childhood growing up in the Bronx projects, to his time as a Daily News reporter, Paul LaRosa gathered enough unique life experiences to write a fascinating book.
Poetry has always been a creative way for people to express themselves, whether you write poems for your own personal benefit, for your friends, or to enter a New York City poetry slam.
Straight out of the red hook projects section of Brooklyn, and featured on NBC New York, CNN, The Daily News, author Torrey Maldonado has captured the mind of adolescents growing up in one of New York's toughest neighborhoods.