The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Founders Archive Project
Friday, March 28th, 2025 from 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM (Pacific Time)
AWP Conference, Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center
Join Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative for this AWP conference panel “The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Founders Archive Project” which focuses on the hybrid literary works created by writers working in an Afro-Caribbean organization dedicated to preserving the fifty-year legacy of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe—an Afro-Puerto Rican cultural organization located in Manhattan’s Lower East Side—from being elided by revisionist history. Lost & Found writers, editors, and fellows Joseph Caceres, Jonathan Toro and publisher Kendra Sullivan (moderator) will discuss the difficulties of producing work that documents the lives of those silenced by colonial violence while highlighting the importance of such work in liberatory projects.
Read more about the “The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Founders Archive Project” here on their working group page.
And watch a video clips of our recent celebration event honoring Nuyorican Poets Cafe founder Lois Elaine Griffith here.
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