Authors, Puerto Rican -- 20th century

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Miguel Algarín was an award-winning Puerto Rican poet, writer, professor, and cofounder of the Nuyorican Poets Café in New York City’s Lower East Side. Through the Café, Algarín helped cultivate the slam poetry movement and provided a diverse venue for aspiring artists. Algarín and fellow poet Miguel Piñero are credited with initiating what is now called Nuyorican Poetry, the first affirmative Puerto Rican literary movement.

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Tato Laviera was an acclaimed Puerto Rican poet, playwright, performer, educator, and community leader. Collection provides insight into Laviera’s life and career, as well as into the Nuyorican poetry movement, of which he was an early member. Collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, notebooks, press clippings, articles, flyers, event programs, posters, photographs, and audio and video recordings.

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Author of numerous books of poetry and literary criticism and a Poet Laureate of Puerto Rico. Distinguished academic and founder of the Ateneo Puertorriqueño de Nueva York. Collection documents cultural expression among Puerto Ricans in New York City, artistic and literary activities, and the work and history of the Ateneo Puertorriqueño de Nueva York. Consists of letters, minutes, articles, books, programs, newspaper clippings, audiotapes and phonograph records.

Abstract Ana Gloria San Antonio was Presidente of the Hispanic Parade in New York City and an active member in cultural organizations, specifically Círculo de Escritores y Poetas Iberoamericanos (CEPI) de Nueva York (CEPI) and Asociación Puertorriqueña de Escritores (APE). Her papers consist of newspaper articles and clippings, newsletters, memos, press releases pertaining to these groups; writings concerning East River North Renewal Inc.; Genoveva de Arteaga, and various artists, poets, and writers....