What’s impressive & enduring about "EXCELSIOR" is the diversity in syntactical architecture, multiverse confessions, inventive forms and transformative life advice transmitted through an undeniable poetics, seasoned in lived wisdom as well as spiritual &  psychological resilience. - Malik Crumpler
​Author of "Maintenance 16"

"The youth has the duty to defend the homeland with the weapons of knowledge"
-Pedro Albizu Campos 
Puerto Rican Nationalist​

"Rojas picks up what our forebears have brought us & leads with a great new collection for the canon"
-Mike Ladd
​Musician/Poet/Librettist

"This book made me feel as though I’d just heard Baraka or Sanchez “blow” a new sound/solo ​on their Soul instruments" 
                            -Askia M. Touré​

Co-founder, The Black Arts Movement

"When The City Sleeps is the neo-nuyo bonafide "poeta en nueva york"
-Michael Cirelli 
author of "The Grind"