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Governors Island, 8/22/09, Orensanz Summer Museum: Miguel Algarin, poet and founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café reads excerpts from his recently released S...
Legendary Nuyorican poet, Miguel Algarin performing "Sublime" on WBAI in NYC along with some candid photos and quotes. Miguel's new book, "Survival Superviv...
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This one goes out to one of my mentors, Cacique Miguel Algarin, who died earlier this week. For those that don't know, he founded the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, o...
By Miguel Algarín. Not tonight but tomorrow when the light turns the peach tree green and the Earth sprouts its young leaves looking to repeat the magical mystery tour of photosynthetic conversion of light and moisture into life— Not tonight but tomorrow when my body will have shed its fear of turning old and soft will I turn my speeding mind
Not Tonight but Tomorrow (1978) By Miguel Algarín. Not tonight but tomorrow. when the light turns the peach. tree green and the Earth sprouts. its young leaves looking to repeat. the magical mystery tour of. photosynthetic conversion of light. and moisture into life—.
Algarín books included Survival Superviviencia (2009), Love is Hard Work: Memorias de Loisaida (1997), Time’s Now/Ya Es Tiempo (1985), Body Bee Calling from the 21st Century (1982), and Mongo Affair: Poems (1978); and he translated Pablo Neruda’s Songs of Protest (1985).
In the introduction to Survival Supervivencia, Ernesto Quiñonez writes, “Miguel Algarín dives down into an urban underclass, he gets inside their skin, burrowing his feelings and when he comes up for air, he stuns us with empathy.”
