Sandra María Esteves Papers

Collection — Folder: 1

Identifier: MSS 25

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The collection contains numerous short stories and poems written by Sandra María Esteves from 1973-1979.

Dates

Creation: 1973-1979

Creator

Esteves, Sandra María (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open to researchers.

Biographical / Historical

Sandra María Esteves is an award-winning poet, visual artist, educator, and member of the Nuyorican poetry movement. Highly involved in the Nuyorican poetry scene, Esteves is a founding poet of the Nuyorican Poets Café and later held a position as an executive director of the African Carribean Poetry Theatre. In recognition of her work and contribution to the arts, she has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Bronx Council on the Arts, Acentos Poetry Collective, and Blind Beggar Press.

Source:

"Biography." Sandra Maria Esteves. Accessed on September 22, 2022. http://www.sandraesteves.com/aboutsandra/biography.html

Extent

.05 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

Spanish; Castilian

English

Metadata Rights Declarations

License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Creative Commons license.

Related Names

Subject

Nuyorican Poets Cafe (1973) (New York (N.Y.)) (Organization)

Subjects

Topical

Classifications

- LIT. Literary Collections

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: Sandra María Esteves Papers
Author: Brendan Enright
Date: 9/22/2022
Description rules: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description: English
Script of description: Latin

Physical Storage Information

Folder: 1 (Graphic Materials)

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora Repository

http://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/collections

Contact:
Silberman Building, Hunter College
2180 Third Ave. Rm. 122
New York New York 10065
centro.library@hunter.cuny.edu

Related Unprocessed Material

Gift: Sandra Maria Esteves Papers

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Our collections consist of personal papers from prominent Puerto Rican artists, elected officials, social activists, writers, as well as the records of community-based organizations. Our largest collection, the Offices of the Government of Puerto Rico in the United States (OGPRUS) Records, measures approximately 2,900 cubic feet and contains an extraordinary amount of information regarding Puerto Rican migrants and the government institutions established to assist them. The collections date from the 1890s to the present, and document Puerto Rican communities in the Northeast, Midwest, Florida, California and Hawaii.