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SCALDING HEART
By Carlton T. Spiller

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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

HEART RIVER UNDERTOW
Poetry by Herb Lowry

Herb Lowrey eyes with shrewd compassion homeless people, Native Americans, indigenous people, the white man of power, the white man of money. He defies that description and creates his own definitions. – Jimmy Santiago Baca

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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

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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)

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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

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PIÑERO

The feature film starring Benjamin Bratt and Talisa Soto, directed by Leon Ichaso, tells the story of Nuyorican founding poet, Miguel Piñero, author of Short Eyes among other work.

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SHORT EYES

Based on the Tony award nominated play written by Miguel Pinero. Directed by Robert M. Young; screenplay by Miguel Pinero, with music scored and composed by Curtis Mayfield.

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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.

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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

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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. )

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POETRY DOG TAGS

Inspired by the Nuyorican Poetry Slam, now you can wear your poetry around your neck! A set of metal embossed tags, with 250 words to choose from and two necklaces. Created and designed by Clare Ultimo, Nuyorican SlamMama. Published by Chronicle Books.

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