From Homelessness to Reading Poems at the UN November 19, 2012: Here's a cool story about Juan Fernandez Rua in Mercury News. A sample: Poetry had long played a role in the life of Juan Fernandez Rua. When he worked as a banker. As a drug counselor. And most especially when he was homeless, or "living out in the open," as he prefers to call it. But it was the poetry that always kept him going. He [...] by Harriet Staff