Born: 21 March 1944 • Died: 3 March 2004
Nuyorican poet and playwright Pedro Pietri was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and raised in Manhattan. In the early 1970s, he cofounded the Nuyorican Poets Café with Miguel Piñero, Miguel Algarín, and others. He was the author of Illusions of a Revolving Door: Plays (1992), The Masses are Asses (1984), Traffic Violations (1983), Lost in the Museum of Natural History (1980), Invisible Poetry (1979), and Puerto Rican Obituary (1973), and the recorded performance poetry LPs, Loose Joints and One Is a Crowd. His work has been widely anthologized. He died in 2004. (Source)
