Voices from the nuyorican poets cafe, an anthology edited by bob holman and miguel algarin. An anthology of puerto rican words and feelings 1975. The nuyorican poets cafe theater festival 1997, aloud. Voices from the nuyorican poets cafe edited by miguel algarin, bob holman and nicole blackman owl books,1994 an anthology of works by leading spoken word poets, including piri thomas. Malkia amala devichcyril born may 2, 1974 is a poet and media activist best known for spearheading national grassroots efforts of the net neutrality campaign, framing the discourse on protecting net neutrality as shifting away from the notion of media democracy and instead as a case of media justice. The nuyorican poets cafe, a cauldron for poetry and politics. Founded in the early 1970s, the nuyorican poets cafe began as a living room salon in the east village apartment of writer and poet miguel algarin.
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Venessa marco, malcolm wicks, jorge brito, mikumari, and tonya ingram, performing for the nuyorican during semifinals at the 20 national poetry slam. The poetry corpse is stirring, its healing heart is a big, dark, brickwalled loft on third street and avenue c called the nuyorican poets cafe. It is a bastion of the nuyorican art movement in new york city, and has become a forum for poetry, music, hip hop, video, visual arts, comedy and theatre. Compiled by poets who have been at the center of the nuyorican poets cafe in. They bridge the gap between academic verse and the spoken word, between the bebop beats and hip hop beats. Nuyorican poets cafes friday night poetry slam featuring the. The nuyorican poets cafe remains a wildly diverse venue influenced by its mostly puerto rican founders who claimed it as a site of artistry and resistance in 1973. Aloud voices from the nuyorican poets cafe by miguel. Watch professional poets perform and our wednesday night slam winners spit, plus a feature from breakbeat poets editors and contributing writers.