Pedro Pietri

Pedro Pietri

male, deceased (2004)
Stomach cancer death, poet, Playwright, NuyoricanPoetsCafe, nuyorican, Puerto Rican
Pedro Pietri (March 21, 1944-March 3, 2004) born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, was a Nuyorican poet and playwright who co-founded the Nuyorican Poets...
Edwin Torres

Edwin Torres

male, 44 years old
poet, National Poetry Slam, Nuyorican Movement, 15 Minutes, NuyoricanPoetsCafe, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts…nuyorican
Edwin Torres (born 1965 in New York City) is a "Nuyorican" (New York-Puerto Rican) poet. Torres's parents emigrated from Puerto Rico and settled in...

Miguel Piñero

male, deceased (1988)
writer, Puerto Rican, Playwright, criminal, actor, NuyoricanPoetsCafe
Miguel Piñero was a Puerto Rican playwright, actor, and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Sarah Jones

Sarah Jones

female, 36 years old
tony, actress, Bryn Mawr College alumni, stage actor, Equality Now, United Nations International School…NuyoricanPoetsCafe
Sarah Jones (b. November 29, 1973) is a Tony and Obie Award-winning playwright, actress, and poet. Called "a master of the genre" by "The New York...
Beau Sia

Beau Sia

male, 33 years old
From Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, American, New York University alumni, Chinese Filipino, satirist, Tisch School of the Arts…NuyoricanPoetsCafe
Beau Sia (Born 1976, Philippines) is a Chinese Filipino-American slam poet. Raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Sia discovered spoken word poetry on...

Miguel Algarín

male, 69 years old
Rutgers University, professor, poet, writer, Puerto Rican, English…NuyoricanPoetsCafe
Miguel Algarín, is a Puerto Rican poet, writer, co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and retired Rutgers University professor of English.

Steve Colman

male
director, Playwright, American, Tony Award, Obie, NuyoricanPoetsCafe
Steve Colman is a poet, writer, performer, and director. He co-wrote and co-starred in "Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam on Broadway." Def Poetry...

Tomás Riley

male
poet, Pacific Review, The Voz Alta Project, Bum Rush the Page A Def Poetry Jam, Chorizo Tonguefire The Taco Shop Poets Anthology, NuyoricanPoetsCafe
Tomás Riley is a poet, writer, educator and a veteran of the seminal Chicano spoken-word collective The Taco Shop Poets. He has appeared in the H...
Lemon

Lemon

male, 34 years old
Harvard University, Nike, Ps 122, Nike, Inc., Live 8, The Ride…NuyoricanPoetsCafe
Lemon (Real name Andrew Anderson) (1975-) (official website: www.lemonshood.com) was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York City. Lemon is a...
Finnegan The Poet

Finnegan The Poet

male, 40 years old
Buffalo, Bisexual, cbgb, LGBT writer, NuyoricanPoetsCafe, Surf Reality
Finnegan the Poet (born March 17, 1969) is a bisexual queer American expatriate poet, writer and performance artist of Afro-Caribbean, Irish and...