Nuyorican Poets

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)

1. Piri Thomas (1928) – Down These Mean Streets (1967), Stories from El Barrio (1978)
2. Miguel Algarín (1941) – Mongo Affair (1978), Love Is Hard Work (1997)
3. Pedro Pietri (1944) – Puerto Rican Obituary (1973), Traffic Violations (1983), The Masses Are Asses (198)
4. Louis Reyes Rivera (1945) – Who Pays the Cost (1977), Scattered Scripture (1996)
5. Miguel Piñero (1946) – La Bodega Sold Dreams (1980), Outlaw (2010)
6. Sandra María Esteves (1948) – Yerba Buena (1980)
7. Tato Laviera (1950) – La Carreta Made a U-Turn (1979)
8. Jesús Papoleto Meléndez (1950) – Casting Long Shadows (1970)
9. Giannina Braschi (1953) – Empire of Dreams (1988), Yo-Yo Boing! (1998), United States of Banana (2011), PUTINOIKA (2024)
10. Edwin Torres (1958) Americanto: Selected Poetry (2015); The All-Sulu Everything (2013)
11. Nancy Mercado (1959) – It Concerns the Madness (2000), Rooms for the Living(2010)
12. Willie Perdomo (1967) – Where a Nickel Costs a Dime (1996), The Crazy Bunch (2019)
13. Mariposa (María Teresa Fernández) (1971) – Born Bronx (2001)
14. Caridad de la Luz (“La Bruja”) (1977) – The Poetic Art of La Bruja (2010)
15. Aja Monet (1987) – When the Bough Breaks (2023)
16. Lara Mimosa Montes (1989) – Thresholes (2020)

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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).

Resources on Nuyorican Poets

• Nuyorican Poets Café Archives at CENTRO
• Nuyorican Playwrights
• Poetry Foundation – Nuyorican Poems
• Puerto Rican Philosophy Books
• Nuyorican Poets Café Founders Archive Project by Jonathan B. Toro

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