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2Leaf Press Celebrates The OGs and fifty years of poetry during National Poetry Month
NEW YORK, NY - The Nuyorican Poets Cafe presents THE OGs: CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS OF POETRY, featuring Original Nuyorican Poet Jesús Papoleto Meléndez, and Abiodun Oyewole of The Last Poets, on Thursday, April 27, 2023. The evening begins with a book signing at 5:30 pm and poetry reading and performance from 7:00pm-8:30pm. The Nuyorican Poets Cafe is located at 236 E 3rd St, New York, NY 10009, and this program is produced by 2Leaf Press Inc. and Audio Visual Terrorism in conjunction with the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.Jesús Papoleto Meléndez ("Papo") is an award-winning New York-born Puerto Rican poet who is recognized as one of the founders of the Nuyorican Movement. He has published several books of poetry, and published four books with 2Leaf Press. His latest book Hey Yo! Yo Soy! is a second edition of his first book with 2Leaf Press and will be available for sale at the event. A 20-minute video clip of the documentary, No Escape From the Firescape (2023) featuring Jesús Papoleto Meléndez, an Audio Visual Terrorism film produced and directed by Vagabond, and presented at the event.
Abiodun Oyewole is a poet, teacher, and founding member of the American music and spoken word group The Last Poets (1968), which laid the groundwork for the emergence of hip hop. He has performed on four Last Poets' albums and released two solo song albums. He has published two poetry collections, a book of essays, and is the editor of Black Lives Have Always Mattered (2017) by 2Leaf Press, which will be available for sale at the books signing.
Meléndez and Oyewole represent an intersection of Nuyorican and African American poetry that began during the lates sixties during the emergence of the Black Arts and Nuyorican movements, which navigated the streets of African American and Latino neighborhoods with an urban angst and strong doses of collective love. The prodigal sons and daughters from these movements helped transform New York street culture and formed, with their multiracial cohorts, the basis for what would become hip-hop culture. Today, African American and Nuyorican poets continue to engage with contemporary social issues and the national and global marketing of identity. What has not changed after all these years is the work of poetry pioneers, Meléndez, and Oyewole in meaningful ways.
Tickets are $20 and are available for sale from the Nuyorican Poets Café Box Office: https://bit.ly/the-ogs. Tickets are $25 at the door (if available). For more information, contact the Nuyorican Poets Café at (212) 780-9386.
Gabrielle David
PO Box 4378
Grand Central Station
New York, NY 10163-4378
gdavid@2leafpress.org
646-801-4227
ABOUT THE PRESS: 2Leaf Press is a Florida-based nonprofit organization with publishing offices in New York that challenges the status quo by publishing alternative fiction, non-fiction, poetry and bilingual works by activists, academics, poets and authors. We are especially dedicated to publishing scholarship regarding diversity and social justice that is accessible to the general public. www.2leafpress.org
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