Nuyorican Poets
Nuyorican Poets (Alphabetical)
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- Miguel Algarín (1941–2020)
- Mongo Affair (1978)
- On Call (1980)
- Body Bee Calling from the 21st Century (1982)
- Love Is Hard Work: Memorias de Loisaida (1997)
- Giannina Braschi (b. 1953)
- Empire of Dreams (1988)
- Yo-Yo Boing! (1998)
- United States of Banana (2011)
- Putinoika (2024)
- Caridad de la Luz (“La Bruja”) (b. 1977)
- The Poetic Art of La Bruja (2010)
- For Sale (2013)
- Sandra María Esteves (b. 1948)
- Bluestown Mockingbird Mambo (1990)
- Mariposa (María Teresa Fernández) (b. 1971)
- Born Bronx (2001)
- Tato Laviera (1950–2013)
- AmeRícan (1985)
- Jesús Papoleto Meléndez (b. 1950)
- Street Poetry & Other Poems (1972)
- Nancy Mercado (b. 1959)
- Rooms for the Living: New and Selected Poems (2010)
- Aja Monet (b. 1987)
- When the Bough Breaks (2023)
- Lara Mimosa Montes (b. 1989)
- The Somnambulist (2016)
- Willie Perdomo (b. 1967)
- Where a Nickel Costs a Dime (1996)
- Smoking Lovely (2003)
- The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon (2014)
- The Crazy Bunch (2019)
- Pedro Pietri (1944–2004)
- Puerto Rican Obituary (1973)
- Traffic Violations (1983)
- The Masses Are Asses (1984)
- Selected Poetry (2015)
- Miguel Piñero (1946–1988)
- La Bodega Sold Dreams (1980)
- Outlaw: The Collected Works of Miguel Piñero (2010)
- Louis Reyes Rivera (1945–2012)
- Who Pays the Cost (1977)
- Scattered Scripture (1996)
- Piri Thomas (1928–2011)
- Down These Mean Streets (1967)
- Savior, Savior, Hold My Hand (1972)
- Seven Long Times (1974)
- Stories from El Barrio (1978)
- Edwin Torres (1958)
- Americanto: Selected Poetry (2015)
- The All-Sulu Everything (2013)
Soy boricua. In spite of my family and in spite of my country—I’m writing the process of the Puerto Rican mind—taking it out of context—as a native and a foreigner—expressing it through Spanish, Spanglish, and English—Independencia, Estado Libre Asociado, and Estadidad—from the position of a nation, a colony, and a state—Wishy, Wishy-Washy, and Washy—not as one political party that is parted into piddly parts and partied out. Todos los partidos están partidos y son unos partidos.
Giannina Braschi, “Soy boricua,” United States of Banana, 2011
Nuyorican Poets (Chronological)
- Piri Thomas (1928) – Down These Mean Streets (1967), Stories from El Barrio (1978)
- Miguel Algarín (1941) – Mongo Affair (1978), Love Is Hard Work (1997)
- Pedro Pietri (1944) – Puerto Rican Obituary (1973), Traffic Violations (1983), The Masses Are Asses (198)
- Louis Reyes Rivera (1945) – Who Pays the Cost (1977), Scattered Scripture (1996)
- Miguel Piñero (1946) – La Bodega Sold Dreams (1980), Outlaw (2010)
- Sandra María Esteves (1948) – Yerba Buena (1980)
- Tato Laviera (1950) – La Carreta Made a U-Turn (1979)
- Jesús Papoleto Meléndez (1950) – Casting Long Shadows (1970)
- Giannina Braschi (1953) – Empire of Dreams (1988), Yo-Yo Boing! (1998), United States of Banana (2011), PUTINOIKA (2024)
- Edwin Torres (1958) Americanto: Selected Poetry (2015); The All-Sulu Everything (2013)
- Nancy Mercado (1959) – It Concerns the Madness (2000), Rooms for the Living(2010)
- Willie Perdomo (1967) – Where a Nickel Costs a Dime (1996), The Crazy Bunch (2019)
- Mariposa (María Teresa Fernández) (1971) – Born Bronx (2001)
- Caridad de la Luz (“La Bruja”) (1977) – The Poetic Art of La Bruja (2010)
- Aja Monet (1987) – When the Bough Breaks (2023)
- Lara Mimosa Montes (1989) – Thresholes (2020)
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Puerto Rican Diaspora Literature
Books and Essays on Nuyorican Poets
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- Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe edited by Miguel Algarín and Bob Holman (1994).
- “Code-switching and translated/untranslated repetitions in Nuyorican Spanglish” by Marina Semenova (2021).
- “Geography, (M)Other Tongues and the Role of Translation in Giannina Braschi’s El imperio de los sueños”by Maria M. Carrion (1996).
- “Giannina Braschi and Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé: New Noises, New Values, New Genres” Instituto Cervantes Video (2024).
- In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam by Urayoán Noel (2014).
- “Insular Interventions: Jesús Colón Unmasks Racial Harmonizing and Populist Uplift Discourses in Puerto Rico” by Maritza Stanchich (2011).
- “Looking Back at the Groundbreaking Puerto Rican Spanglish Novel” by Rolando Perez (2022).
- “New/Nueva York in Giannina Braschi’s Poetic Egg: Fragile Identity, Postmodernism, and Globalization” by Diane Marting.
- Nuyorican aesthetics, a conversation with Miguel Algarín (1981/1987).
- “Nuyorican and Diasporican Literature and Culture” by Jorge Duany (2018).
- Nuyorican Poetry: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Words and Feelings edited by Miguel Algarín and Miguel Piñero (1975).
- “On Out of Focus Nuyoricans, Noricuas, and Performance Identities” by Urayoán Noel (2014).
- Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi edited by Frederick Luis Aldama and Tess O’Dwyer (2020).
- Puerto Rican Voices in English: Interviews with Writers by Carmen Dolores Hernandez (1997)
- “Speaking in Tongues.” The Fordham University Recordings featuring Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé.
- “The Geography of Their Complexion: Nuyorican Poetry and Its Legacies” by Urayoán Noel (2019).
- Writing Of(f) the Hyphen: New Critical Perspectives on the Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora edited by Jose L. Torres-Padilla and Carmen Haydée Rivera (2008).
- “Yo-Yo Boing! or a Translingal Practice” by Francisco Moreno (2020).
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