A truly remarkable meeting of spoken poetry and improvised double bass playing. Puerto Rican mastermind and poet Miguel Algarin and Albey Balgochian is a prolific and influential literary figure in ...
What started in 1973 as a literary salon in founder Miguel Algarín’s East Village living room has grown into an iconic cultural institution that continues to offer a platform for underrepresented ...
A truly remarkable meeting of spoken poetry and improvised double bass playing. Puerto Rican mastermind and poet Miguel Algarin is a prolific and influential literary figure in the United States and ...
In the wake of Malcolm X’s assassination in the winter of 1965, Black and brown poets like Amiri Baraka, Miguel Algarin, and Sonia Sanchez consciously rejected effete paper poems for those that sought ...
NEW YORK — Miguel Algarín, poet, professor and a founder of New York City's beloved Nuyorican Poets Café performance space, has died. He was 79. Algarín died Monday at a Manhattan hospital from sepsis ...
Swing by the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in the East Village on a Friday and be prepared to wait. Boho types have been lining up for years to listen to wordsmiths use language like swords to slash and ...
Amiri Baraka, Ed Sanders, Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, Ntozake Shange, Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Miguel Algarin, Diane di Palma, Anne Waldman, John Cage, and Jim Carroll ...