Nuyorican Poets Café
Forum for Puerto Rican culture in New York City
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The Nuyorican Poets Café is a nonprofit organization in the Alphabet City neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It is a bastion of the Nuyorican (Puerto Rican New Yorker) art movement, and has become a forum for poetry, music, hip-hop, video, visual arts, comedy, and theater. Several events during the PEN World Voices festival are hosted at the Café.
The Nuyorican Poets Café is meant to be a venue from which Nuyorican artists, poets, and playwrights take shared themes and messages of community, understanding, and the breaking down of arbitrary separators of color, among others, and spread them outside the environment of the Café.
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