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Jesús Papoleto Meléndez is a poet and one of the founders of the Nuyorican movement initiated by poets of Puerto Rican descent. He is also a playwright and the author of Very Drunk / Borracho: Love Poems & Other Acts of Madness / Poemas de Amor y Otros Actos de Locura (2LeafPress, 2020). Meléndez has taught as a poetry facilitator for over forty years. He lives in New York City.
Miguel Algarín was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, on September 11, 1941. The cofounder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, he is the author of Survival Superviviencia (Arte Publico Press, 2009).
Giannina Braschi was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She is the author of numerous collections of poetry.
Denice Frohman is a queer Nuyorican poet, the daughter of Puerto Rican and Jewish parents.
Ed Morales is a Nuyorican poet, as well as a Latinx writer and journalist.
Jack Agüeros was born in 1934 in East Harlem.
Poet and playwright Pedro Pietri was a prominent Nuyorican poet and the author of several books of poetry