< div style =" text-align: center ; border: none "> Nuyorican Poets Cafe, New York City </ div > A poetry slam is a competition at which poets read or recite original work.

Bob Holman, a poetry activist and former slammaster of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, once called the movement " the democratization of verse.

In his 2005 interview in Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam, he recalls seeing his first slam, at the Nuyorican Poets Café:

* Hal Sirowitz ( who was on the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Poetry Slam team in 1993 ) won an NEA Fellowship in Poetry in 1994

* Adrienne Su ( who was on the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Poetry Slam team in 1991 ) won a NEA Fellowship in Poetry in 2007

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

* Miguel Algarin & Bob Holman, ALOUD: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets ' Cafe

< div style =" text-align: center ; border: none "> Nuyorican Poets Cafe, New York City </ div > The term " performance poetry " originates from an early press release describing the popular 1980s performance poet Hedwig Gorski, whose audio recordings achieved success on spoken word radio programs around the world.

Venues like Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City and mass media formats, like Gorski's and John Giorno's, form the two lines of influence leading to Def Poetry on HBO.

Some famous landmarks include Tompkins Square Park and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

Well known Puerto Rican authors from this period include novelist Nicholasa Mohr, playwright José Rivera, poet Judith Ortiz Cofer, and the Nuyorican Poets Café.

Some landmarks with Alphabet City include Tompkins Square Park and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

The Nuyorican Poets Cafe has been located off Avenue C and East 3rd Street since its founding in 1973

* Nuyorican Poets Cafe – music, poetry, readings, slams

The Nuyorican Poets Café on New York ’ s Lower Eastside was founded in 1973 and is one of the oldest American venues for presenting spoken word poetry.

The Nuyorican Poets Café in 1989 held the first documented poetry slam.

The Nuyorican Poets Café and Da Poetry Lounge have a close association with the poetry slam movement which was popularized by Russell Simmons ’ Def Poetry Lounge with both main hosts Bob Holman and Shihan apprearing several times on the show.

Nuyorican itself dates at least from 1975, the date of the first public sessions of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

* Nuyorican Poets Café

* Pedro Pietri, co-founder of Nuyorican Poets Café

* Miguel Algarín, co-founder of Nuyorican Poets Café

Miguel Piñero ( December 19, 1946 – June 18, 1988 ) was a Puerto Rican playwright, actor, and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café.

Nuyorican Poets Cafe

* Nuyorican Poets Cafe

The Café also has a radio broadcast on WBAI, where Algarín starts the broadcast with his signature " We're live from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe ".

He is the editor of Action: The Nuyorican Cafe Theatre Festival and co-editor of Aloud.

* Pedro Pietri, co-founder of Nuyorican Poet's Cafe

* Nuyorican Poets Cafe

In 1997, Olson began performing at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, where she eventually made the 1998 Nuyorican Poetry Slam team.

< div style =" text-align: center ; border: none "> Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Photo: Shankbone </ div > Pietri helped found the Nuyorican Poets Café, together with Miguel Piñero and Miguel Algarín.

* Miguel Algarín, co-founder of Nuyorican Poet's Cafe

Alphabet City became an important site for the development and strengthening of Puerto Rican cultural identity in New York ( see the Nuyorican Movement ).

Attracted by the Nuyorican movement, low rents, and creative atmosphere, Alphabet City attracted a growing Bohemian population.

Loisaida Avenue is now an alternative name for Avenue C in the Alphabet City neighborhood of New York City, whose population has largely been Hispanic ( mainly Nuyorican ) since the late 1960s.

The population of Puerto Ricans and descendants is estimated to be between 8 to 10 million worldwide, with most living within the islands of Puerto Rico, Central Florida, Chicago Metropolitan Area and in New York City, where there is a large Nuyorican community.

The term is mostly associated with New York City and may be Nuyorican in origin.

Boogaloo or Bugalú ( shing-a-ling, popcorn music ) originated in New York City and said to be " the first Nuyorican music ".

Thomas was influential in the Nuyorican Movement which included poets Pedro Pietri, Miguel Algarin, and Giannina Braschi, who wrote of life in New York City using a mix of English and Spanish.

Historically, Nuyoricans resided in the predominantly Hispanic / Latino section of Manhattan known as Spanish Harlem, and around the Loisaida section of the East Village, but later spread across the city into newly-created Puerto Rican / Nuyorican enclaves in Brooklyn, Queens and the South Bronx.

In 1997, Dumile began freestyling incognito at open-mic events at the Nuyorican Poets Café in Manhattan, obscuring his face by putting a stocking over his head.

The first salsa bands were predominantly " Nuyorican " ( New Yorkers of Puerto Rican descent ).

The neighborhood has become a center of the counterculture in New York, and is known as the birthplace and historical home of many artistic movements, including punk rock and the Nuyorican literary movement.

The term Nuyorican is also sometimes used to refer to the Spanish spoken by New York Puerto Ricans.

The last two decades have also seen a revival of the Beat poetry spoken word tradition, in the form of the poetry slam, which was born of the Nuyorican movement led by New York based Puerto Rican poets Pedro Pietri, Giannina Braschi, and Miguel Piñero.

The Café is a place for performance of poetry about the experience of being a Nuyorican or Puerto Rican in New York.

When the Spirits Dance Mambo: Growing Up Nuyorican in El Barrio ( New York: Three Rivers Press ).

Schizophonic also featured two new rappers, Akil Dasan and Gaston, both of whom Wilkinson found at New York ’ s underground hangout, the Nuyorican Poets Café.

In 1998 she returned to New York, concluding that she was clearly now a Nuyorican, given her negative personal experiences in Puerto Rico.

His best known work, A Puerto Rican in New York, set the stage for the literary movement known as the " Nuyorican Movement ".