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Pedro Pietri (March 21, 1944 – March 3, 2004) was a Nuyorican poet and playwright and one of the co-founders of the Nuyorican Movement. He was considered by some as the poet laureate of the Nuyorican Movement.
Conoce la vida y la obra de Pedro Pietri, uno de los primeros escritores del movimiento poético nuyorriqueño. Descubre sus poemas, sus obras de teatro, su participación en el Nuyorican Poets Cafe y su activismo artístico.
Fundador y más representativa figura del movimiento literario “Nuyorrican” surgido durante el segundo lustro de la década de 1960, Pedro Pietri siempre sera recordado no solo como el máximo exponente de la poesía puertorriqueña escrita en “spanglish”, sino también como una voz de rebeldía ante la injusticia social que ...
Learn about Pedro Pietri, a Nuyorican poet and playwright who cofounded the Nuyorican Poets Café and wrote about Puerto Rican identity and politics. Explore his poems, plays, and recordings on the Poetry Foundation website.
Pedro Pietri nació en Ponce, Puerto Rico en 1944, y creció en Harlem, Nueva York. Durante los 70 estableció el Café de Poetas Nuyorican. Puerto Rican Obituary fue leído por primera vez en 1969, en una marcha a favor de Young Lords Party, una organización antiimperialista latina en Nueva York.
6 de mar. de 2004 · Pedro Pietri, a poet and playwright who chronicled the joys and struggles of Nuyoricans -- urban Puerto Ricans whose lives straddle the islands of Puerto Rico and Manhattan...
Nuyorican poet and playwright Pedro Pietri was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and raised in Manhattan. A few years after graduating from high school, he was drafted into the Army and served in the Vietnam War.
