JESUS PAPOLETO MELENDEZ ("Papo") is a New York-born Puerto Rican award-winning poet most associated as one of the founders of the Nuyorican Movement. He is also a playwright, teacher and activist. Meléndez is the recipient of the Louis Reyes Rivera Lifetime Achievement Award (2004); and a 2001 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. He currently resides in New York.
"Finally, a body of work from the school of Nuyorican Poetry that
calls us from the street while we're on the rooftop making faces at
the stars. You can feel the steam of winter wreck our souls in
Papoleto's verse; in it, you find the cascading flow of personal
and political evolution born of chaos and fracture. Poetry has
never spoke louder; same goes for love in this collection. Let
Papoleto's book serve as a chronicle of transnational
awakening."--Willie Perdomo, author of Smoking Lovely
"Meléndez is the true voice of a poet, who disrobes society for us
to see it raw and naked as it is in its own skin. Many of us are
not ready to see society as it is. Papoleto brings us closer
through his [magnifying] glass of words, drawing us to the sad,
dark, and rebellious part of our humanity that deserves to be seen
and analyzed. His poetry represents freedom of speech and thinking,
bringing voice to the often silenced perspectives in our society. I
look forward to sharing these poems with my friends and
students--we are all in need of a linguistic venue for our critical
thinking."--Melissa Nieves, Union Settlement Association
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