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	Nuyorican Poets Cafe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Nuyorican Poets Cafe is a New York City performance venue, best known for slam poetry, but also presenting theater, stand-up comedy, Latin jazz, hip-hop performance, and screenplay readings.
		By 1975 they began renting an Irish bar, the Sunshine Cafe on East 6th Street, and adopted the name Nuyorican Poets Cafe.
		Among those who at one time or another had performed at the Cafe are: Miguel Piñero (co-founder), Pedro Pietri (co-founder), Piri Thomas, Zoraida Santiago, Esmeralda Santiago, Edwin Torres, Daniel Dumile and Caridad "La Bruja" de la Luz.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nuyorican_Poets_Cafe (196 words)

	Nuyorican - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nuyorican is a blending of the phrases "New York" and "Puerto Rican" and refers to the members or culture of the Puerto Rican diaspora located in or around New York State especially New York City, or of their descendants (especially those raised or still living in the New York area).
		The term is used to identify heritage or ethnicity instead of, or in addition to, the standardized census categories of white, fl, Asian, American Indian or Alaska native, or Hawaii or Pacific Island native.
		Nuyorican itself dates at least from 1975, the date of the first public sessions of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nuyorican (210 words)

	PUERTO RICO HERALD: The Poetry Of The Nuyorican Experience (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		That year Piñero, known as Miky, was one of the founders of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe; he died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1988, when he was 41.
		Many young Nuyorican writers said they were driven to poetry by racist encounters in mostly white schools, by witnessing injustices suffered by family members or neighbors at the hands of the police, landlords or welfare workers, and by the need to express themselves, "to prove," as one poet said, "that I was a human being."
		The Nuyorican Poets Cafe is still home for many Nuyorican poets and remains a thriving poetry hub, but its neighborhood has become trendy and expensive and freer of crime and drugs.
	www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/2002/vol6n02/PoetryNY-en.shtml (1656 words)

	WBAI Folio - Fall 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Nuyorican (New York Puerto Rican) poets articulated the spiritual, cultural, and political sentiments of a people establishing their unique identity, resisting imperious forces of assimilation.
		Among the new wave of verbal combatants are the Welfare Poets and a Nuyorican Poets team that won the National Slam in 1998 and second place last year.
		The Nuyorican Poets Café is socially relevant and politically defiant in a city overrun by corporate conduits posturing as outlets of entertainment and culture.
	www.wbai.org /vol/folio/10-03/11nuyorican.html (571 words)

	PUERTO RICO HERALD: Pedro Pietri, Nuyorican Poet King Dies… When Life Is Art, Dying Is Simply Not An Option (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Poet Pedro Pietri, whose trailblazing 1973 book "Puerto Rican Obituary" gave voice to the struggles and hopes of Nuyoricans, died Wednesday of stomach cancer.
		Pietri helped found and nurture the Nuyorican Poets Cafe on the Lower East Side, which remains a mecca for performance poets who had not even been born 31 years ago when he published his meditation on a people's lonely spiritual death.
		The person he became was a poet, who burst upon the scene in 1973 with the book "Puerto Rican Obituary," a collection that has since been translated into Spanish, Italian and German, even though it is difficult to find a copy in the original English.
	www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/2004/vol8n11/PedroPietri.shtml (1539 words)

	MOSAEC Site, Scenes & Words-Nuyorican Poets Cafe
		In the movie Pinero, poet Miguel Algarin (immortalized by Giancarlo Esposito) grows weary of the crew crowding his living room and swiftly unveils a storefront space as a new place for everyone to create and perform.
		The Nuyorican's Lower Eastside neighborhood, dubbed Loisiada - "the community" - by its Spanish speaking residents, is a mixture of ethnicities from Puerto Rican to Polish, and the Nuyorican seeks to provide a place where such people can create work that illuminates their experiences.
		As Lois Griffith, co-director and a founding poet of the Nuyorican once wrote, "The journey from the street corner to the page is full of potholes." The Nuyorican exists to ease the bumpiness of the road.
	www.mosaec.com /mosaec/ssw/ssw_nuyorican.htm (515 words)

	ARCOS Communications -- Client News
		New York – On November 8, 2003 the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, a renown arts organization worldwide, will stop New York City in its tracks celebrating their 30th anniversary season at the legendary Town Hall.
		Known to many as the “mecca of spoken word,” the Nuyorican Poets Cafe: ALOUD the 30th anniversary celebration, will feature a slew of performances the Cafe is notorious for.
		Nuyorican Poets Cafe: ALOUD will begin at 8pm on Saturday, November 8, 2003 at The Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street.
	www.arcos-ny.com /client_news.html (414 words)

	The Making of Miguel Piñero and 'The World of the Nuyorican' \| Tribes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The combined group of poets and playwrights read their works in that donated space until Papp found a renter, the eviction resulting in the founding of The Nuyorican Poets Café, to whose creative work Papp kept his door open, eventually picking up two plays, first by Piñero and later by Reinaldo Povod.
		Piñero and the other “outlaw” Nuyorican Poets were colorfully newsworthy where the academic Algarín was less so, but their media value both enriched the Café and made of this Nuyorican scene the most prominent image of the mainland Puerto Rican culture.
		His traveling to readings as “Nuyorican” poet also signaled the exhaustion of “the world of the Nuyorican” in the way that Algarín once believed he was managing it in the name of the larger Puerto Rican community.
	www.tribes.org /cgi-bin/form.pl?karticle=312 (10254 words)

	The Academy of American Poets - A Brief Guide to Slam Poetry
		Poetry began as part of an oral tradition, and movements like the Beats and the poets of Negritude were devoted to the spoken and performed aspects of their poems.
		This interest was reborn through the rise of poetry slams across America; while many poets in academia found fault with the movement, slam was well received among young poets and poets of diverse backgrounds as a democratizing force.
		A slam itself is simply a poetry competition in which poets perform original work alone or in teams before an audience, which serves as judge.
	www.poets.org /viewmedia.php/prmMID/5672 (317 words)

	Nuyorican Poets Cafe New York City.com : Bars & Music : Editorial Review
		A non-profit organization, the Cafe has emerged as one of the country's most highly respected arts organizations and has become an acclaimed forum for innovative poetry, music, hip hop, video, visual arts, comedy and theatre.
		The mission of the Cafe is to create a multi-cultural venue that both nurtures artists and exhibits a variety of artistic works.
		The Cafe's purpose has always been to provide a stage for the artists traditionally under-represented in the mainstream media and culture; promoting their work while building an audience and providing an ongoing support system for them as they grow.
	www.nyc.com /bars_clubs_music/Nuyorican_Poets_Cafe.52123/editorial_review.aspx (868 words)

	There Was Never No Tomorrow, Nuyorican Pedro Pietri In His Own Words
		That is the original Nuyorican Poets Café, on Sixth Street, and that’s where I come to the conclusion that the Nuyorican Movement is the First Draft Movement, because we were all very enthusiastic about reading the first draft, something that’s rarely done now.
		The Nuyorican Movement set an alliance with the Royal Chicano Air Force, and we became honorary members, because the Chicano and the Nuyorican Movements are the same.
		You have the Welfare Poets and Mariposa Fernandez.
	laprensa-sandiego.org /archieve/february06-04/pedro.htm (1953 words)

	Performance poets to present dazzling verbal pyrotechnics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		With their infectious energy, dynamic poetry and gripping descriptions of the human condition, the poets have revived the flavor of the 1950s' Beat generation while introducing the joy and power of spoken verse to the 1990s' X generation.
		Through club appearances, tours, TV specials and more, the Nuyoricans have fanned the fires of performance poetry to the point where spoken verse now echos regularly in cafes, clubs, libraries and church basements nationwide.
		He ran the New York-based St. Mark's Poetry Project from 1977 to 1984 and was co-director and "Slam Host" of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe from 1989 to 1996.
	record.wustl.edu /archive/1997/04-03-97/3874.html (652 words)

	5th Night Screenplay Readings at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
		The Fifth Night performances are at The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, 236 East Third Street (between avenues B and C).
		We will schedule and hold one rehearsal at the Cafe, generally from 2-5pm on the day of the reading.
		If your film is chosen, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe is equipped with a 12' x 9' movie screen, a 16mm projector as well as a state-of-the-art video projection system.
	www.thefifthnight.org /submission.htm (836 words)

	Slant Magazine - Nuyorican Slam: A Conversation With Benjamin Bratt and Leon Ichaso
		He was the co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café, an ancestor of rap and the spiritual guide for a community of Latino actors trying to carve a niche for themselves in a Hollywood far from color-blind.
		Indeed, Bratt is electrifying as the poet, unrecognizable below the authentic grit and heartbreaking pathos he brings to the role.
		Certainly his legacy transformed the downtown New York scene and his influence is still being felt today, most especially in the form of the Nuyorican Poets Café, which is very much alive and part of the downtown community for young artists, particularly young artists of color.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/features/nuyoricanslam.asp (2214 words)

	NPR : Poetry from the Nuyorican Cafe
		All Things Considered, November 17, 1997 · Marcia talks with two members of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, in New York city.
		"Nuyorican" is an amalgam of New York and Puerto Rican.
		The cafe's founder, Miguel Algarin, and poet Tracie Morris read some of their poetry, which includes elements of hip-hop, avant garde and sound poetry.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1037805 (126 words)

	Guest Spot
		He has lived most of his life in New York City and is the founder of the famed Nuyorican Poets Café on Manhattan’s Lower Eastside.
		Today, The Café still thrives and welcomes poets, playwrights, and musicians of every background, including many members of The Italian American Writers Association who were first brought to the scene by the initiative of playwright, Luciana Polney and the grace of Lois Griffith.
		He is a poet, professor, and entrepreneur who shows that a belief in, and prowess in, ethnic literatures does not destroy the standard English canon in America, but rather adds to and enriches it.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /modlang/carasi/via/ViaVol6_2Guest.htm (1085 words)

	Hispanic Heritage Celebration 2000 - Newark Public Library
		The Nuyorican Poets' Café presents an afternoon of savvy, well-honed comedy and poetry, hosted by poet Miguel Algarín.
		Algarín is the founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café in New York City and was the radio host of its live broadcasts on WBAI for more than eighteen years.
		A distinguished poet and critic on his own right, he has authored several collections of poetry and teaches at Rutgers University.
	www.npl.org /Pages/ProgramsExhibits/hh00/3.html (122 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Nuyorican (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Fiesta en Nuyorican Poets Cafe: Lugo con licencia para cantar
		Kelsey is Zora Neale at Nuyorican Poets Cafe
		The Nuyorican Poet's Cafe in the East Village.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Nuyorican (196 words)

	Nuyorican Obituary: Pedro Pietri, 59, Served The People
		Nuyorican icon, Pedro Pietri, died twice last week at the age of 59.
		In co-creating a dynamic foundation for the Nuyorican culture during the 1960s, El Reverendo Pietri played the part of Spanglish Metaphor Consultant for the Latin Insomniacs Motorcycle Club Without Motorcycles Inc., as well as Poet-Laureate for the Young Lords Party.
		He co-founded the Nuyorican Poets Café (originally on Sixth Street in Lower Eastside Manhattan, New York), and along with Miguel Algarín, Lucky Cienfuegos, Papoleto Melendez and the notorious Miguel Piñero, he began the First Draft Nuyorican Poetry Movement, a movement by which first draft poems are shared aloud without hesitation or corrections.
	www.calacapress.com /pedropietri.html (925 words)

	The Newark Public Library Celebrates Hispanic Heritage
		DESCRIPTION: The Nuyorican Poets Cafe presents an evening of rip roaring Latino comedy and poetry at the Newark Library, hosted by Miguel Algarfn.Algarfn is the founder of the Nuyofican Poets Caf6 in New York City and was the radio host of its live broadcasts on WBAI for more than eighteen years.
		A distinguished poet and critic in his own right, he has just published a collection of poems entitled, Love is Hard Work, and Action: A Collection of Theater Pieces Premiered at the Nuyorican Poets Café.
		Some of the featured stand up comics and poets are: Sarah Jones, who recently completed a successful one-woman how in New York titled, "Surface Transit: Ordinary Lives", keith roach, Slam Master at the Nuyorican Poets Café; Caridad de la Luz, currently in production of a show titled "Boogie Rican".
	www.npl.org /Pages/ProgramsExhibits/hh98/event3.html (169 words)

	NY Poets
		He has performed his poetry at Dixon Place (1996), and The Nuyorican Poets Cafe (1996).
		The Troupe enjoyed a successful 2003 season at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, featuring both unknown and award-winning poets.
		At the 2003 Nuyorican Poet's Cafe 30th Anniversary showcase in NYC, he volunteered backstage.
	www.nypoets.com /Poets/fred.htm (292 words)

	SLAMicide - Where the real poets slam! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		He represented the Nuyorican Poets Café National Slam Team in Providence, Rhode Island in August 2000.
		As of December 2000, Jamaal won the esteemed title of Nuyorican Slam King at the illustrious New York Nuyorican Poets Café.
		Jamaal St. John's poetry is a cross between old school hip-hop rhyme schemes with cunning wordplay, accentuated with topics about current social, political and economic issues and their importance.
	www.slamicide.com /jstjohn.html (184 words)

	Action: The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Theater Festival
		For nearly twenty-five years, poets, writers, artists, actors, directors, and an ever-growing audience have flocked to New York's landmark Nuyorican Poets Cafe.
		Now for the first time, twenty original plays, monologues, and performance pieces that debuted at the Nuyorican are gathered together.
		Miguel Piñero, Ishmael Reed, Amiri Baraka, and Ntozake Shange are among the featured playwrights.
	www.asu.edu /brp/dist/cine/MALG.html (56 words)

	Welcome to Arcos Entertainment - A Division of Arcos Communications
		Thirty poets were featured including Aileen Cho, Vicki Hudspith, Helena D. Lewis, Emanuel Xavier, Jackie Sheeler, Tantra, Jane LeCroy, Justina, Leslie Duprey, Rashida, Ryn Gargulinski, David Mills, Karen Jaime, Clara Sala, Jennifer You, Dawn, Jason Roberts, Jennifer Cendana Armas and Osagyefo as well as special guest poets from Youth Speaks and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.
		WOMEN OF WORD returned to the Nuyorican Poets Cafe with its annual showcase in honor of Women's History Month and broke new ground in female expression with performances by Susana Cook, Suheir Hammad, Karen Jaime, Lois Griffith and Liza Jessie Peterson.
		In celebration of National Poetry Month and the Nuyorican Poets Café's 25th anniversary, the critically-acclaimed spoken word event, VOCALEASE, presented VOICES AROUND THE SQUARE, a poetry festival benefiting the Nuyorican Poets Café.
	www.arcose-ny.com /pastevents.html (1478 words)

	Amazon.com: Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe: Books: Miguel Algarin,Bob Holman,Nicole Blackman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		New York City's Nuyorican Poets Cafe, a Lower East Side institution, is known for hosting poetry slams, or public recitals of poems competitively graded by the audience.
		Manhattan's Nuyorican Poets Cafe, located in the low-rent district of Alphabet City, has become well-known over the past two decades for its poetry performances and "slams." Founded by Algarin and the late Miguel Pinero, it is the home for New York Puerto Rican poets and other poets of various nationalities and ethnic groups.
		The poets bare their souls, their opinions, their lives in an unflinching declaration of life.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805032576?v=glance (1625 words)

	The Academy of American Poets - New York
		Famous for their Friday night slams, Nuyorican Poets Cafe is home to slam, hip-hop, theater, film, and music and the publishers of two anthologies, Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and Action: The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Theater Festival.
		An Evening with the U.S. Poet Laureate, New York, NY The Academy of American Poets presents an evening with the new U.S. Poet Laureate: Donald Hall.
		Chancellors Reading, New York, NY The Academy of American poets presents the fifth annual reading by members of its distinguished Board of Chancellors.
	www.poets.org /state.php/varState/NY (3110 words)

	Pedro Pietri, 59, seminal Nuyorican poet, playwright
		, who embodied the spirit of Nuyorican poetry and was a founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café in the East Village, died last Wednesday of stomach cancer at the age of 59.
		He helped found the Nuyorican Poets Café, currently at 236 E. Third St. near Avenue C, in the 1970s, which popularized the style of slam poetry, and was the inspiration for the generation of Latino poets who followed him, known as Nuyorican poets.
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	www.thevillager.com /villager_45/pedropietri59.html (226 words)

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