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Miguel Algarín Jr. (11 September 1941 – 30 November 2020) was a Puerto Rican poet, writer, co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café, and a Rutgers University professor of English.
Poet and writer Miguel Algarín was born in Puerto Rico and raised in a culturally-minded household before moving to Manhattan in the early 1950s. He earned degrees in literature from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Penn State University. In the early 1970s, he cofounded the Nuyorican Poets…
Dec 3, 2020 · Miguel Algarín, a poet and driving force behind the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, a performance space on the Lower East Side of Manhattan that since 1973 has played host to poetry readings, plays and...
Dec 4, 2020 · Back in 1973, often remembered as the bad old days of the Lower East Side, Miguel Algarín, focusing on the light he saw shining from an emerging New York Puerto Rican community, began hosting a...
Dec 4, 2020 · Miguel Algarin, poet, professor and a founder of New York City's beloved Nuyorican Poets Cafe performance space, has died. He was 79.
Dec 4, 2020 · Miguel Algarín, poet, professor and a founder of New York City’s beloved Nuyorican Poets Cafe performance space, has died. He was 79. Algarín died of sepsis Monday at a Manhattan hospital ...
Miguel Algarín was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, on September 11, 1941. The cofounder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, he is the author of Survival Superviviencia (Arte Publico Press, 2009).
