Remembering Samuel Diaz Carrion

[trx_title type="3" style="underline" align="center"]Remembering Samuel Diaz Carrion[/trx_title][trx_title type="3" align="center" font_size="18pt"]January 3, 1947 ~ June 30, 2017[/trx_title] [Photo taken at Nuyorican Poets Cafe (2013) at Jesus Papoleto Melendez book party.  Photo: Vagabond.] I remember the poetry scene during the 1990s in New York City. Poetry scenes come and go, but I don't think there will ever [...]

Celebrating National Poetry Month: Samuel Diaz Carrion

PUBLISHER’S COMMENTS Samuel Diaz Carrion has been part of the Nuyorican landscape for years, writing poetry, and working as an activist. He was there when the founders of the movement decided to turn a negative into a positive by adopting a pejorative in defiance of others; and he was there when Miguel Algarin and Pedro […]

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 […]