Nuyorican

Giannina Braschi wrote United States of Banana (Amazon Crossing, 2011), Yo-Yo Boing! (Latin American Literary Review Press, 1998), and Empire of Dreams (Yale University Press, 1994).

Emanuel Xavier is the author of Love(ly) Child (Rebel Satori Press, 2023), Selected Poems of Emanuel Xavier (QueerMojo, 2021), Radiance (Rebel Satori, 2016), Nefarious (QueerMojo, 2013), If Jesus Were Gay …

Willie Perdomo is the author of Smoking Lovely: The Remix (2021, Haymarket Books), The Crazy Bunch (2019, Penguin), The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon (2014, Penguin), and Where a Nickel Costs a Dime (1996…

Poet, writer, educator, and activist Nancy Mercado is the author of It Concerns the Madness (2000) and editor of the children’s anthology if the world were mine (2003). She earned a BA from Rutgers University…

Dominican Boricua Nuyorican poet and artist Sandra Maria Esteves was born and raised in the Bronx. A founding member of the Nuyorican poetry movement, she writes poems engaged with themes of social justice…

Nuyorican poet and playwright Pedro Pietri was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and raised in Manhattan. A few years after graduating from high school, he was drafted into the Army and served in the Vietnam War…

Miguel Piñero was a playwright, actor, and cofounder of the Nuyorican Poets Café with Miguel Algarín, Pedro Pietri, and others. Born in Gurabo, Puerto Rico, he and his family moved to the Lower East Side of…

Poet and writer Miguel Algarín was born in Puerto Rico and raised in a culturally-minded household before moving to Manhattan in the early 1950s. He earned degrees in literature from the University of Wisconsin…

A self-proclaimed “lingualisualist” rooted in the languages of sight and sound, Edwin Torres was born in the Bronx and is a longtime resident of New York City. He is a poet whose highly acclaimed performances…