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New York, NY. Occupation. Poet, playwright. Nationality. Puerto Rican. Literary movement. Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Pedro Pietri (March 21, 1944 – March 3, 2004) was a Puerto Rican poet and playwright and one of the co-founders of the Nuyorican Movement. He was considered by some as the poet laureate of the Nuyorican Movement.
Miguel Algarín. Miguel Algarín Jr. (11 September 1941 – 30 November 2020) [1] was a Puerto Rican poet, writer, co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café, and a Rutgers University professor of English. [2]
Dr. Rafael Pujals, physician and civic leader. María Martínez Acosta, politician. Pedro Albizu Campos – President and principal leader of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. Román Baldorioty de Castro, The Father of Puerto Rico's Autonomy. Federico Degetau, writer, author, and Resident Commissioner.
Gautier Benítez. de Hostos. Pedreira. Puerto Rican literature is the body of literature produced by writers of Puerto Rican descent. It evolved from the art of oral storytelling. Written works by the indigenous inhabitants of Puerto Rico were originally prohibited and repressed by the Spanish colonial government [citation needed].
Partner. Martin Wong [1] Children. Ismael Castro (adopted) Miguel Piñero (December 19, 1946 – June 16, 1988) was a Puerto Rican born American playwright, actor and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café. He was a leading member of the Nuyorican literary movement.
The Cerro Maravilla murders, also known as the Cerro Maravilla massacre, [3] occurred on July 25, 1978, at Cerro Maravilla, a mountain in Ponce, Puerto Rico, [1] [2] wherein two young Puerto Rican pro-independence activists, Carlos Enrique Soto Arriví [a] (born December 8, 1959) and Arnaldo Darío Rosado Torres [b] (born November 23, 1953), were murdered in a Puerto Rico Police ambush.
The Ponce massacre was an event that took place on Palm Sunday, March 21, 1937, in Ponce, Puerto Rico, when a peaceful civilian march turned into a police shooting in which 17 civilians and two policemen were killed, [6] and more than 200 civilians wounded.
businessman, revolutionist. Notes. Brugman and his son were executed by the Spanish authorities. Mathias Brugman (birth name: Mathias Brugman Duliebre) (January 3, 1811 – September 30, 1868), a.k.a. Mathias Bruckman, was a leader in Puerto Rico 's independence revolution against Spain known as El Grito de Lares (English: The Cry of Lares).