Nuyorican World Series Archives

July 20, 2015

Samuel Diaz Carrion: Doin’ The Nuyorican Thing

Samuel Diaz Carrion used to work at the Nuyorican Poets Café in the Lower East Side of New York. He would often be asked what a Nuyorican is… In a series of poems and stories from his new book, OUR NUYORICAN THING: THE BIRTH OF A SELF-MADE IDENTITY, Diaz explores the self-made identity that is […]

September 14, 2014

Artist Teofilo Olivieri Illustrates Lisa Sánchez González’ Forthcoming Book, “Puerto Rican Folktales”

What happens when professor-scholar Lisa Sánchez González embarked on publishing the first definitive collection of Puerto Rican Folktales in over 50 years? She teamed-up with a Puerto Rican artist who could bring readers closer to the retelling of these quintessential stories and capture Puerto Rican culture. That artist is Teofilo Oliveri.