Nuyorican Poets Café - Wikipedia Nuyorican Poets Café From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Forum for Puerto Rican culture in the Lower East Side of Manhattan Nuyorican Poets Café Nuyorican Poets Cafe building on East 3rd St. in Alphabet City Address 236 East 3rd Street Location New York City Coordinates 40°43′19″N 73°58′54″W / 40.721951°N 73.9817816°W / 40.721951; -73.9817816Coordinates: 40°43′19″N 73°58′54″W / 40.721951°N 73.9817816°W / 40.721951; -73.9817816 Public transit Second Avenue Opened 1975 (1975) Website www.nuyorican.org The Nuyorican Poets Cafe is a nonprofit organization in Alphabet City, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. 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.[1] Several events during the PEN World Voices festival are hosted at the cafe.[2] Contents 1 History 2 In popular culture 2.1 List of Poets, Artists, and Musicians 2.1.1 Spoken word 2.1.2 Music 2.1.3 Visual arts 3 See also 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External links History[edit] Founded c. 1973, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe began operating in the East Village apartment of writer, poet, and Rutgers University professor Miguel Algarín with assistance from co-founders Miguel Piñero, Bimbo Rivas, and Lucky Cienfuegos.[1] By 1975, the number of poets involved with the venture outgrew that space, so Algarín rented an Irish pub, the Sunshine Café on East 6th Street, and they named it "The Nuyorican Poets Cafe". During the mid- to late 1970s, some of the featured poets included founders Miguel Algarín, Miguel Piñero, Pedro Pietri, Victor Hernández Cruz, Tato Laviera, Piri Thomas, Jesús Papoleto Meléndez, and José Angel Figueroa. By 1980, the overflow of audiences led them to purchase their current building at 236 East 3rd Street so as to expand their activities and programs.[1] Among the few early Nuyorican women poets was Sandra María Esteves. A second wave of major Nuyorican Poets, featured at the cafe, emerged including Nancy Mercado, Giannina Braschi, and Martín Espada. The Nuyorican Poets Cafe counts poetry activists such as Bob Holman, Saul Williams, Sarah Jones, Emanuel Xavier, and Beau Sia as former slammasters and was the home to the now mobile Nuyorican freestyle battle program Braggin' Rites. The exterior walls are painted by a local artist "Chico" who has done neighborhood murals for decades. Above the entry doorway hangs Diana Gitesha Hernandez's acrylic painting. In explaining the philosophy of the venture, co-founder Algarín said: "We must listen to one another. We must respect one another's habits and we must share the truth and the integrity that the voice of the poet so generously provides.[1] In the 1990s a new group of Nuyorican poets and performing artists emerged to read at the cafe. in 2008, Daniel Gallant was appointed executive director. In 2015, Carmen was the first full-length opera shown at the cafe, produced by IconoClassic Opera.[3] In popular culture[edit] In 1994, Nuyorican Poets Cafe was the subject of a 14-minute documentary entitled Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Directed, produced and edited by Ray Santisteban, the documentary features founder Miguel Algarin along with Willie Perdomo, Ed Morales, Pedro Pietri, and Carmen Bardeguez Brown. Nuyorican Poets Cafe won "Best Documentary" at the 1995 New Latino Filmmaker's Festival in Los Angeles.[4] In 1996, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Poetry Slam Team was the subject of a feature-length documentary entitled SlamNation. Directed by Paul Devlin, the documentary follows Nuyorican poetry slam founder Bob Holman and the poets of the 1996 Nuyorican team (Saul Williams, Beau Sia, Jessica Care Moore and muMs da Schemer) as they compete in the 1996 National Poetry Slam held in Portland, Oregon. The documentary also features performances by Marc Smith, Taylor Mali, and Patricia Smith among others.[5] In the 1998 Spanglish novel Yo-Yo Boing! by Giannina Braschi features a dramatic scene of a Spanglish poetry reading at the Nuyorican Poets Café with founder Pedro Pietri who is also a character in the play United States of Banana.[6][7] In 2001, León Ichaso's film "Piñero" features reenacted scenes of poetry readings by Miguel Piñero of “Seeking the Cause” and “A Lower East Side Poem”; at the end of the film co-founders of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and other prominent poets, including Miguel Algarín, Amiri Baraka, José-Angel Figueroa, and Pedro Pietri, lead a funeral procession and scatter Piñero's ashes on the streets of the Lower East Side.[7] In 2018, a year after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, PBS NewsHour featured a special on the diaspora reading at the Nuyorican Poets Café, entitled: "After Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rican poets ask again what it means to belong".[8] List of Poets, Artists, and Musicians[edit] This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (October 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Spoken word[edit] Major voices in Nuyorican, Latinx poetry, and other American contemporary poetry movements have performed at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, including: Miguel Algarín, Founder[9] Paul Beatty[10] Amiri Baraka[11] Giannina Braschi[12] Malkia Cyril Cheryl B and Daniel Dumile Sandra María Esteves[13] Shaggy Flores Carl Hancock Rux La Bruja/Caridad de la Luz Tato Laviera[14] Jesús Papoleto Meléndez[14] Nancy Mercado Willie Perdomo[citation needed] Pedro Pietri[7] Miguel Piñero[7] Ishmael Reed[15] Ntozake Shange Edwin Torres[16] Emanuel Xavier[17] Music[edit] In June 2002, Nuevo Flamenco guitarists Val Ramos opened for three-time Puerto Rican Grammy nominee Danny Rivera at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.[1] The club also produces Latin Jazz, Reggaeton, Hip Hop, and Salsa events. Performers have included: Zoraida Santiago[citation needed] The Bronx Conexión[citation needed] Val Ramos[citation needed] Danny Rivera[citation needed] After a brief hiatus from music, MF Doom began performing open mic events at the Nuyorican under his new moniker. Visual arts[edit] The Nuyorican Poets Cafe produces exhibitions by local Latinx artists including: Juan Sanchez Rafael Tufino Jr. Esperanza Cortez Manuel Rivera-Ortiz See also[edit] Nuyorican Nuyorican movement Puerto Rican literature Puerto Rican poetry Puerto Ricans in New York City References[edit] ^ a b c d e About the Nuyorican Poets Cafe ^ "Pen World Voices Festival 2018 to Convene Writers, Artists, And Thinkers", broadwayworld.com, March 28, 2018 ^ "Carmen: A Drinking Opera". The Village Voice. Retrieved 9 October 2015. ^ "Ray Santisteban", profile at subcine.com ^ https://poets.org/text/slamnation-poetry-slam-documentary ^ Stanchich, Maritza. "Bilingual Big Bang: Giannina Braschi’s Trilogy Levels the Spanish-English Playing Field." Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi ^ a b c d https://www.americanquarterly.org/interact/americas.html ^ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/tag/nuyorican-poets-cafe ^ Algarín, Miguel. Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Henry Holt. ^ S., Sandhuv (June 2016). "Paul Beatty: SLAM Poet". The Guardian. ^ "Amiri Baraka - "In Town @ the Nuyorican Poets Cafe" - Amiri Baraka". Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 2020-10-10. ^ Poets, Academy of American. "About Giannina Braschi | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 2020-10-10. ^ "Sandra Maria Esteves". Poetry Foundation. ^ a b "8 Poets Disclose Their Favorite Lines". NBC Latino. April 4, 2013. Nuyorican poets ^ "Playwright Ishmael Reed On Why He Thinks 'Hamilton' Is a Total Fraud". Observer. 2019-01-15. Retrieved 2020-10-10. ^ Foundation, Poetry (2020-10-10). "Edwin Torres". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2020-10-10. ^ "Nuyorican Movement - The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia". www.artandpopularculture.com. Retrieved 2020-10-10. Further reading[edit] Zapf, Harald (2006). "Ethnicity and Performance: Bilingualism in Spanglish Verse Culture". Amerikastudien / American Studies [de]. Universitätsverlag Winter [de]. 51 (1): 13–27. JSTOR 41158195. External links[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nuyorican Poets Café. 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