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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Zapf, Harald
• Concannon, Kevin
• Priewe, Marc
• Lomelí, Francisco A.

Titel

Slammin’ in Transnational Heterotopia: Words Being Spoken at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe

Ist Teil von

• Imagined Transnationalism, p.117-136

Ort / Verlag

New York: Palgrave Macmillan US

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In this chapter I will focus on the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and zoom in on two poetry anthologies of writers associated with it. Both collections were coedited by Miguel Algarín, a Nuyorriqueño, who is one of the founders of the Poets Cafe. In 1975, he and cofounder Miguel Piñero, also known as the “Philosopher of the Criminal Mind” (Algarín 1994, 507), published the collection Nuyorican Poetry: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Words and Feelings. Almost twenty years later, in 1994, Algarín teamed up with the Anglo-American poetry slam host Bob Holman; together they brought out the American Book Award—winning anthology Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.