The Nuyorican Press is launching its new poetry series with Carlton T. Spiller’s Scalding Heart, a book that explores the emotional sightline of pain, joy and a passion that pushes humanity to dare explore itself. The book walks us through a world of pain, the cancer of a loved one, the world of the body, the emotions and the worlds of social and spiritual responsibility.

SCALDING HEART
ALOUD: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
LOVE IS HARD WORK: Memorias de Loisaida
AMONG OTHERS
ACTION: The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Theater Festival
MONGO AFFAIR
THE LOWEST BLUE FLAME BEFORE NOTHING
MONK: The Video of the Play
THIS AIN'T NO POCKET DIARY
NEW!!! SCRATCHES...(DVD)

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SCALDING HEART By Carlton T. Spiller Reviews of Scalding Heart: "Cyber space, heart and intelligence; Spiller’s book explores humanity in all its loose and startling passions. Scalding Heart reads like the road map of experience. It scolds and soothes. Here is a new American Voice for the ages." – Miguel Algarin "Carlton Spiller is still in the vineyards of his own realized revelation. His is a poetry still picking away at the detritus of the moment, its beauty as the act and the abrupt completion of his own mind . . . But there is a sometimes awesome near understanding of his own being, independent of the subjective disguise of daily American boobery. For this we say, you got it going, now stretch it out!" – Amiri Baraka

		ALOUD: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe edited by Miguel Algarin and Bob Holman 1994 American Book Award Winner As the "New York Observer" writes: "The poetry corpse is stirring," it's beating heart is "a big, dark, brick-walled loft on Third Street and Avenue C called the Nuyorican Poets Cafe". Welcome to the inside of the explosion! Everyone is in here – from founding poets Miguel Pinero, Pedro Pietri and Piri Thomas to Reg E Gaines, Edwin Torres, Paul Beatty, Hal Sirowitz, Carl Hancock Rux, Maggie Estap, Patricia Smith etc etc. The classic underground poetry anthology. (514 pages) Buy This Book now on amazon.com Buy This Book now on barnesandnoble.com

		LOVE IS HARD WORK: Memorias de Loisaida Poems by Miguel Algarin At once a moving personal memoir and colorful portrait of life in New York's Lower East Side, this masterly collection of poems captures the whirlwind of signts, sounds, and sorrows or urban life. A celebration of the beautiful, the grotesque, the comic and the tragic, Algarin's poems resound with honesty, passion and grace. (155 pages) Buy This Book now on amazon.com Buy This Book now on barnesandnoble.com

		AMONG OTHERS A Novel by Lois Griffith Writing with a unique beauty and subtlety, Griffith has created a profoundly compelling story of race, love and protest. In Della, her central character, she presents a woman of undeniable appeal, both tough and vulnerable, whose search for identity, conjured in rich detail, in universal in scope. (312 pages) Buy This Book now on amazon.com Buy This Book now on Barnes and Noble.com

		ACTION: The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Theater Festival by Miguel Algarin and Lois Griffith For over 25 years, New York's landmark Nuyorican Poets Cafe has served as a breeding ground and showcase for some of the most original and energetic new works of theater in the country. "Action" brings together 20 original works — plays, monologues, and performance pieces that debuted at the Nuyorican. Featuring such well-known writers as Miguel Pinero, Ishmael Reed, Amiri Baraka and Pedro Pietri, as well as emerging names like Frank Perez, Gloria Feliciano and Janice Astor del Valle, "Action" gives you a front-row seat for some of the most vital theater in America. (551 pages) "A fascinating look at the voices and energies that make the Nuyorican a thriving cultural force" — George C. Wolfe Available directly from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Click here to order

		NOW AVAILABLE IN LIMITED QUANTITIES FROM THE NUYORICAN POETS CAFE MONGO AFFAIR Poems by Miguel Algarin A popular early work by a founding Nuyorican poet, "Mongo Affiar" is the experience of "our chemical-electrical, physical breakdown", "the love and hate for the tar and concrete jungle of Manhattan". (120 pages) Available as long as the supply lasts from Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Click here to order.

		THE LOWEST BLUE FLAME BEFORE NOTHING Short Stories by Lara Stapleton Streetwise, funky, irreverent – Lara Stapleton's twelve short stories map that place in the human heart where exaltation and humiliation, fear and hope, merge. Lara has been a regular "fixture" at the Cafe for years now and we're proud to introduce you to her latest published work. (195 pages) "A gutsy, emotionally astute collection of stories that walks the reader over the hot coals of unnamed desire". – Ginu Kamani, author of "Junglee Girl" Buy this book now on amazon.com Buy this book now on barnesandnoble.com

		MONK: THE VIDEO OF THE PLAY (filmed at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe) by Lawrence Holder, starring Rome Neal. Approximate running time: 90 minutes "Brilliant...exquisite" - The New York Times..."Passionate, powerful and real" - Shout NY "Intense...hypnotic" - The Village Voice..."Brilliantly written, extraordinary" - Amsterdam News "MONK" is a one character "tour de force" about the enigmatic composer who performed for four decades and whose music still inspires musicians of today. The play stars Rome Neal, who has won Audelco Awards for both acting and directing, notably for "Shango de Ima." Neal is a Triumph Award winner for his work on Alex McDonald's "Prism." Lawrence Holder is a two time Audelco Award winning playwright. "When the Chickens Came Home to Roost" and "M: The Mandela Saga" are two of his award-winning plays. He is the recipient of the Garland Anderson Award from The National Black Theater Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Available directly from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Click here to order

		THIS AIN'T NO POCKET DIARY Raul Robert Maldonado Raul Maldonado, a celebrated and published writer and poet, former Peace Officer, Marine, Counselor and graduate of Mercy College, has written this intimate look into the personal struggle of a herion addict. "This Ain't No Pocket Diary", published by Black Alchemist Press is a brilliant testament to his courage and success despite all the odds against him, he has accomplished far more than most people do in their whole lifetime. Order directly from us. $15.95 Paperback Available directly from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Click here to order

SCRATCHES (DVD) Written and Directed by Iris Huey Poem by Harold Branch III His name is Silas. And he can sweet-talk just about any woman right into his bedroom. This world class player sees no harm in his behavior and thinks life is all good until he steps inside a spoken word café one fateful night. What happens then, will turn this player's world completely upside down. (28 min. ) Click here to view trailer or buy DVD