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	PUERTO RICO HERALD: Pedro Pietri, Nuyorican Poet King Dies… When Life Is Art, Dying Is Simply Not An Option (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Pietri was on a plane on his way back to New York from Tijuana, Mexico, where he was seeking alternative treatment, when he died.
		Pietri, who captured the absurdities, the heartbreak and the hope of his parents' generation in "Puerto Rican Obituary." An epic elegy for his fellow migrants who turned their backs on their heritage to chase what he saw as an elusive American dream, it won him international acclaim and inspired the Nuyorican cultural movement.
		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.
	www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/2004/vol8n11/PedroPietri.shtml (1539 words)

	Poetry Bay - Online Poetry Magazine
		Pedro Pietri (1944-2004), New York City street poet and political activist, cofounder of the Nuyorican Cafe, promoter of Nuyorican society and a fixture on the performance scene in Manhattan, died Mar 3 2004 at the age of 59.
		Pietri was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico's 'second city' on the south coast of the Caribbean island, on March 21, 1944.
		Pietri had been in Playas de Tijuana, Mexico for six weeks undergoing alternative treatment for stomach cancer and was flying back to New York in an air ambulance when he died.
	www.poetrybay.com /Summer2004/essays_pietri.htm (451 words)

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		Pietri was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico on March 21, 1944, and emigrated with his family to New York City when he was 3 years-old, initially living in the Grant Houses, a public housing project on Amsterdam Avenue in Harlem.
		Pietri was drafted into the United States Army, serving with a light infantry brigade in the Vietnam War from 1966-1968, an experience that Mr.
		Pietri was one of the founders of the Nuyorican poetry movement, helping to start the Nuyorican Poets Café on the Lower East Side in Manhattan during the 1970’s.
	webdocs.nyccouncil.info /attachments/60547.htm (852 words)

	PUERTO RICO HERALD: 'El Reverendo' Just Not Ready To Leave Pulpit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The sad news spread rapidly this weekend: Pedro Pietri, the king of Latino poetry in this town for more than 30 years, is suffering from inoperable stomach cancer.
		Usually sporting a long fl overcoat and a fl bowler, with scraggly shoulder-length hair and mustache, Pietri, who was born in Puerto Rico in 1944 and served in the Vietnam War in 1967-68, sarcastically calls himself El Reverendo, the minister of the fictional Church of the Mother of All Tomatoes.
		Other Pietri poems, like "Suicide Note from a Cockeroach in a Low- Income Housing Project" and his extended series of "Telephone Booth" verses have been acclaimed as first-rate examples of urban street poetry and forerunners of today's rap or slam contests.
	www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/2004/vol8n02/ElRev.shtml (623 words)

	Pedro Pietri, 59; Puerto Rican poet - The Boston Globe
		NEW YORK -- Pedro Pietri, a cofounder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe who composed poems and plays that illustrated the lives of Puerto Rican New Yorkers, died of renal failure on Wednesday.
		Pietri's work was inspirational for many young Latino poets, including those who were regulars at Nuyorican on the Lower East Side.
		Pietri leaves his wife, Margarita; a sister Carmen Pietri Diaz; a brother, Joe; and four children.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/03/07/pedro_pietri_59_puerto_rican_poet (256 words)

	Eye Weekly - Poetry: A Nuyorican state of mind - 05.27.99
		There's more prisoners outside of jail than inside." Veteran poet and playwright Pedro Pietri could be referring to Puerto Rico, his colonized native island, or to the poor U.S. barrios that hold the Nuyoricans (Puerto Ricans living in New York) who provide menial labor to the affluent and perhaps hope to become someone's Latin lover.
		Pietri's plays have been performed by such Latin luminaries as Raúl Julia, and he has toured his poetry extensively around the world.
		Pietri is also the co-director of El Puerto Rican Embassy, a "free state of mind" located in New York City.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_05.27.99/arts/poetry.html (674 words)

	Blog of Death: Pedro Pietri
		Pedro Pietri composed poems that illustrated the lives of Puerto Rican New Yorkers.
		When Pietri was diagnosed with inoperable cancer last year, his friends and fans donated $30,000 for his care.
		Pietri wrote 20 books of spoken word pieces, poems and songs, including "El Puerto Rican Embassy" and "The Spanglish National Anthem." He also produced two albums with Folkway Records and worked as an AIDS activist.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000805.html (317 words)

	My Nuyorican Heros - Pedro Pietri
		Pedro Pietri, a poet and playwright who chronicled the joys and struggles of Nuyoricans — urban Puerto Ricans whose lives straddle the islands of Puerto Rico and Manhattan — died on Wednesday en route from Mexico to New York.
		Pietri was born in Ponce, P.R., and moved with his family to Harlem when he was 3, eventually settling into the Grant Houses, a housing project on Amsterdam Avenue.
		Pietri Diaz and his brother, Joe, both of New York, he is survived by his wife, Margarita Deida Pietri, of Yonkers, and four children.
	www.virtualboricua.org /Docs/pietri.htm (1175 words)

	Nuyorican Obituary: Pedro Pietri, 59, Served The People
		The end of the life of Pedro's second birth, being naturally born to his mother in Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1944, occurred first when he was being transferred via airplane back to his home in Midtown Manhattan, New York (a.k.a.
		The life of Pedro's third birth, which occurred in 1947 when he arrived in the U.S. through the epic of Operation Bootstrap, at twelve midnight in New York.
		This life of his is the life of all oppressed people across the world and one that remains a struggle, which El Reverendo Pedro Pietri highlighted in his repertoire of poetry and plays (The Masses Are Asses, Traffic Violations, Invisible Poetry and Puerto Rican Obituary).
	www.calacapress.com /pedropietri.html (925 words)

	Nuyorican Obituary: El Reverendo Pedro Pietri, 59, Served The People By Raymond R. Beltrán (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The end of the life of Pedro's second birth, being naturally born to his mother in Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1944, occurred first when he was being transferred via airplane back to his home in Midtown on the Westside of Manhattan, where he'd spent the last twenty years of his life.
		Papoleto Melendez, a 30-year friend of Pedro, and Joe Pietri, Pedro's brother, were at his side the moment he passed away on a mini-jet while refueling in El Paso, Texas.
		The life of Pedro's third birth, which occurred in 1947 when he arrived in the U.S. through the epic of Operation Bootstrap, ended at twelve midnight in New York.
	calacapress.com /raymondrbeltran/ray-pedropietri2.html (852 words)

	Pedro Pietri (b. 1944) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Pedro Pietri has produced two records, "Loose Joints" and "One is a Crowd" (Folkway Records).
		Pietri's poetry is political poetry in its most direct sense: a poetry of denunciation, directed to create a cultural consciousness among the members of the Puerto Rican community.
		Though quite contemporary, Pietri's poetry has to be understood in terms of its original objective of addressing the masses as oral poetry.
	college.hmco.com /english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/pietri.html (501 words)

	Celia Cruz
		If you have ever laughed, reveled in, or enjoyed one of Pedro’s poems—or if you can recall a line from any one of his countless poems—then this letter is of utmost urgency to you.
		El Rev Pedro Pietri—the author of Puerto Rican Obituary, in its tenth printing is a classic in the Puerto Rican literature—his entire life is poetry.
		Pedro was victimized by the war as a result of Agent Orange exposure and ignored by the parties responsible for his condition.
	www.nuyorican.org /Indexart/pedrofund.html (455 words)

	Amazon.com: Puerto Rican Obituary: Books: Pedro Pietri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Pedro called himself El Reverendo de La Iglesia De La Madre De Los Tomates (Reverend of the Church of the Mother of the Tomatoes).
		Although Pedro's poetry was filled with humor, it was also full of the dark frustration that defined the Puerto Rican experience living in New York City.
		It is irony that permeates the larger part of his poetry, and where there is humor it was always as a mask to cover the tears of the unfulfilled dreams of each and every individual who felt he had no voice.
	www.amazon.com /Puerto-Rican-Obituary-Pedro-Pietri/dp/0853453004 (817 words)

	Pedro Pietri, 59, seminal Nuyorican poet, playwright
		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.
		Pietri wrote more than 20 books, including poetry and plays.
		He is survived by his wife, Margarita Deida Pietri, four children, a brother, Joe, and a sister, Carmen Pietri Diaz.
	www.thevillager.com /villager_45/pedropietri59.html (226 words)

	DC Slam (formerly MYTH) @ Teaism - Come see the hottest poets! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Pedro Pietri exploded onto the New York City literary scene with poetry and plays in the late 60’s.
		Pedro would extend his poetry into the genre of stand-up comedy, performing most notably at the Inprov Comedy Club, in the theater district.
		Pietri was the first consultant to Paul Simon’s Broadway musical play, “The Capeman,” which was based on a true Puerto Rican youth crime incident in the 1950’s.
	www.dcslam.com /pietri.html (1271 words)

	Monthly Review June 2004 Pedro Pietri
		The Young Lords were destroyed by U.S. government provocations in the mid 1970s, but Pedro Pietri continued on as a radical activist and poet—he saw no distinction between these roles.
		Pedro Pietri was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1944 and raised in Harlem.
		Pedro Pietri died of cancer, aged 59, on March 3, 2004.
	www.monthlyreview.org /0604pietri.htm (401 words)

	Pedro Pietri (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Pedro Pietri nació en Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 21 de marzo de 1944, pero vivió casi toda su vida en Nueva York.
		Pietri es fundamentalmente poeta, aunque su producción incluye más de veinte obras teatrales.
		En este libro, punto clave dentro de la literatura neorriqueña, Pietri presenta una sátira del sueño americano, que ha motivado a miles de puertorriqueños a emigrar hacia los Estados Unidos, proyecándola como una pesadilla y hasta la muerte.
	www.angelfire.com.cob-web.org:8888 /ny/conexion/pietri_pedro.html (433 words)

	Pacifica.org
		Pedro Pietri died on Wednesday at the age of 59.
		The famed Nuyorican poet Pedro Pietri died Wednesday at the age of 59.
		Pedro Pietri, reading an excerpt of his poem "Puerto Rican Obituary" from the Third World Newsreel documentary "El Pueblo Se Levanta."
	www.pacifica.org /programs/dn/040305.html (1092 words)

	Fellows Remember Pedro Pietri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		His passion, dedication, and insight will be sorely missed, but his example of how to live one's life should continue to inspire us on a daily basis.
		Pedro and I knew each other from Manhattanville and Grant Projects, our love for poetry and for social causes.
		Written at Pedro's wake, while thinking of our romps in the park.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/revson/memorials/pedro/fellows_remember_pedro.html (191 words)

	WNYC - News - Poet Pedro Pietri Died a Year Ago Today
		NEW YORK, NY March 03, 2005 —Today marks the one year anniversary of the death of New York City poet Pedro Pietri.
		In the 1970's, he was a major voice in the downtown poetry scene and helped found the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.
		Pietri died on an airplane traveling to New York City from Mexico, where he had been receiving treatment for stomach cancer.
	www.wnyc.org /news/articles/44542 (190 words)

	Rembering Pedro Pietri
		We join with the Museo de la Historia de Ponce in celebrating their posthumous homage in memory of the poet and playwright from Ponce Pedro Pietri, commemorating the Day of Reaffirmation of the Spanish Language in Puerto Rico.
		PRdream is contributing video selections of Pietri reading from his classics ''Puerto Rican Obituary'' and ''El Spanglish National Anthem''.
		Homenaje postumo en memoria del poeta y dramaturgo ponceño Pedro Pietri, en
	www.prdream.com /pedro_pietri/index.html (157 words)

	Pedro Pietri
		Pietri first read his epic poem, Puerto Rican Obituary, at the First Spanish United Methodist Church (The People’s Church) in Harlem during the Young Lords’ take-over in 1969.Pedro would extend his poetry into the genre of stand-up comedy, performing most notably at the Improv Comedy Club, in the theater district.
		The first of his plays to be produced, “Jesus Is Leaving,” directed by Jesus Papoleto Melendez and Juan Valenzuela at the first Nuyorican Poets’ Café on 6th Street and Avenue A.His first Long-playing recording (album) of his poetry, “Aqui Se Habla Espanol,” was released in 1971.
		Nuyorican poet Pedro Pietri, while flying back to New York from Tijuana in an air ambulance on March 1, Died.
	senorboriqua.net /Famous%20Puerto%20Ricans2/Pedro%20Pietri.html (763 words)

	Pietri Bronx Tribute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Pedro Pietri has been permanently memorialized by the great artist and muralist, Chico, on the front of our poetic home.
		The family of our beloved poet, Pedro, would like to thank everyone who showed their support and love during this time of deep sorrow.
		We will never forget you Pedro, and we will keep your creative light burning bright into the future!
	www.nuyorican.org /Indexart/PedroFront.html (62 words)

	Interview With Pedro Pietri \| Tribes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The following interview took place in Pedro’s midtown apartment, surrounded by his fl paintings, overlooking Manhattan.
		The evening before, Ayana Jackson (the photographer who accompanied me to interview Pedro) and I had attended one of the “Poets Opposed to War” readings that Pedro and Papoleto Meléndez were organizing at the time.
		PP: My uncle was in the nationalist party, Juan Pietri, and he told me everything I needed to know about Puerto Rican History.
	www.tribes.org /cgi-bin/form.pl?karticle=647 (1845 words)

	Muddy Bank: Comment on Pedro Pietri Is Ill
		Muddy Bank: Comment on Pedro Pietri Is Ill
		Also, the Academy of American Poets maintains a Pietri page in its online poetry classroom.
		Which is not to say I accept Pietri's image of the man in fl.
	www.2river.org /cgi-bin/MoveableType/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=160 (159 words)

	United States of Poetry: A Day in the Life
		In a recent performance at Lincoln Center, REV. PEDRO PIETRI finally gave himself a promotion: he is now Bishop Pedro!
		A fixture on the streets of Nueva York, Pietri sells poems with condoms as a living art performance -- and a way to break even with life.
		Their ages add up to 65, so they plan to leave Milwaukee and retire soon to Santa Claus, Indiana.
	www.worldofpoetry.org /usop/life.htm (666 words)

	Jesus Melendez telling Frank Perez about poet Pedro Pietri's final momen... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Jesus Melendez telling Frank Perez about poet Pedro Pietri's final momen...
		Jesus Melendez telling Frank Perez about poet Pedro Pietri's final moments in an air ambulance.
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