Nuyorican Poets Cafe
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The Nuyorican Poets Cafe is a New York City performance venue, best known for slam poetry, but also presenting theater, stand-up comedy, Latin jazz, hip-hop performance, and screenplay readings. The café is a non-profit organization.
Located in eastern part of Manhattan's East Village, an area variously known Alphabet City or Loisaida, the café began around 1973 as a living room salon in the apartment of writer, poet, and Rutgers University professor Miguel Algarín, who still as of 2004 serves as a board member. By 1975 they began renting an Irish bar, the Sunshine Cafe on East 6th Street, and adopted the name Nuyorican Poets Cafe. In 1980 they purchased their current building at 236 East 3rd Street.
Among those who at one time or another had performed at the Cafe are: Miguel Piñero (co-founder), Pedro Pietri (co-founder), Piri Thomas, Zoraida Santiago, Esmeralda Santiago, Edwin Torres, Daniel Dumile and Caridad "La Bruja" de la Luz.
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