31. Cover Letter
I really didn’t think that I was going to enjoy this class. It is so far removed from anything that I have previously studied that the class seemed daunting. Maybe daunting is too strong of a word?...
View Article32. Abstracting Information
Code of Honor: A Study of Bilingualism with a Focus on the Structure, Code Switching, and Identity in the Poetry of the Nuyorican Poets Abstract In the early 1970’s a group of Puerto Rican poets in the...
View Article33. Let’s Test That Theory.
I will argue that in the poetic works of Miguel Algarin, Pedro Pitri, Jose Figueroa, Sandra Maria Esteeves, and Tato Laviera, formerly identified as Nuyorican Poets, identity and assimilation, as it...
View Article34. Coming to an Article Near You
The conflicts are very many. Languages are struggling to possess us; English wants to own us completely; Spanish was to own us completely. We, in fact, have mixed them both…We create poems for...
View Article35.Finding a New Way Home
“Riding the seven train to Jackson Heights, I thought of our immigration to the United States eighteen years ago. But “immigration” is too big a word to describe what Happened. Let’s just say we moved...
View Article36. So Many Yoyo Trick References
“Yoyo thinks of her speech her mother wrote her as her last invention. It is as if, after that, her mother passed on to Yoyo her pencil and ad and said “Okay, Cuquita, here’s a buck. You give it a...
View Article37. Mystical Areas
“ As sanctuaries that possess restorative powers, rural places have become an idyllic retreat from the “increasingly urbanized and fast-paced world beyond” (Wyckoff and Dilsaver 1995, 4).” (Jeffrey S....
View Article38. My Poets
““As a cultural construct, the meaning of the city can be deciphered by closely examining its complex relationship with the culture of which it is a part” (Domosh 1992, 475). A clearer appreciation of...
View Article39. It’s Okay, It Only Sounds Painful
In my searches for “Nuyorican poetry” the YouTube search box suggested “Nuyorican Poetry slam.” So I clicked on it and found this. “Crushing Hard” sounds painful and it proves painful. The loud...
View Article40. Again…Again.
[…] I thought of my newborn son and what his life would be like here; I thought ofPuerto Rico and my folks and everything that we had left behind, just out of need; I thought of so many things that...
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