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Sandra María Esteves was born and raised in the Bronx, New York. She is the author of Bluestown Mockinbird Mambo (Arte Publico Press, 1990) and Yerba Buena (Greenfield Review, 1980). A member of the Nuyorican movement, Esteves is a founding poet of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and the former executive director of the African Caribbean Poetry Theater. She received a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 1985. She has served as a teaching artist for over thirty years and has conducted literary programs for the Bronx Council on the Arts, El Museo del Barrio, and the New York City Board of Education, among other educational institutions. She lives in the Bronx.
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...
Victor Hernández Cruz was born in 1949 in Puerto Rico. He is the author of numerous collections...
Miguel Algarín was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, on September 11, 1941. The cofounder of the...
Giannina Braschi was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She is the author of numerous collections of...