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Poet and playwright

Part of Miguel Piñero’s literary prominence stems from his association with the Nuyorican poetic movement. He was a close friend of Miguel Algarín, with whom he collaborated in promoting the movement, the founding of the Nuyorican Poets Café in 1975, and the publication of the co-edited groundbreaking volume, Nuyorican Poetry: An Anthology of Words and Feelings (1975), which introduced several of the poets associated with the first wave of this movement.

Piñero was born in Gurabo, Puerto Rico, in 1946. He was four years old when his parents migrated to New York. His father abandoned the family five years after their arrival to the city. He grew up in the Lower East Side or Loisaida, the Spanish name given to their beloved barrio by the Nuyorican poets. This is the place that Piñero always considered home and the center of gravitation and major source of inspiration for his poetry. It was in the streets of Loisaida that he learned at an early age the survival struggles of impoverished and racialized communities, and of those who are thrust to live at the m

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Piñero, Miguel: 1946-1988: Playwright, Poet, Actor

When theater-goers think of contemporary playwrights of color, they might think first of Luis Valdez or perhaps August Wilson. These men, who achieved significant reputations as playwrights, became writers in very conventional ways, having first studied drama, as did Valdez, or having evolved from poet to dramatist, as did Wilson. Both Valdez and Wilson saw theater as a means to express the lack of equality and social justice that each writer had noted about his own people. For Miguel Piñero however, the journey to playwright was more complex. His career as a playwright began in New York's Ossining Correctional Facility (Sing Sing), where Piñero was serving a sentence for armed robbery. It was his reaction to events witnessed while in prison that provided the impetus for Piñero to find his creative voice.

Miguel Piñero was born in Gurabo, Puerto Rico, in 1946. The son of Adelina Piñero and Miguel Angel Gómez, Miguel Piñero emigrated to the United States with his parents and brothers and sis

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Miguel Piñero: 1946-1988: Playwright, Poet, Actor

In addition to his achievements as a playwright and poet, Piñero also found some success as an actor. Like his writing, acting was a talent that he discovered while in prison. Piñero acted in his own plays. He also acted in other films, including a small role in a film about a drug kingpin, Alphabet City, in 1984 and another small part in an unconventional romantic comedy, Almost You, in 1985. Neither film was a critical hit. Piñero's other film credits included Times Square (1980). Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981), Breathless (1983), Exposed (1983). Deal of the Century (1983). and The Pick-Up Artist (1987). In most of these films, Piñero was little more than a walk-on, often playing a stereotyped low-life criminal-type—the sort of people that he knew well and wrote about most often. On television, Piñero's roles were similar to his own life. He appeared on Miami Vice, Baretta, and Kojak, always playing roles that echoed his own marginalized experiences with criminals, dru