Paul Catafago is the director and founder of Movement One: Creative Coalition, a New York arts non-profit organization, which amongst other things organizes the annual Queens International Poetry Festival. He is a poet who has performed his poetry all over the world, including his native New York, where he was a regular at The Nuyorican … Continued
Catherine Coy began work as the Poets House Program Director after completing her MFA in poetry from Columbia University in 1997. Before joining the staff full-time, she had been with Poets House for two years as a volunteer and Program Assistant. She moved to New York from Chicago, where she received her BA in English … Continued
Regie Cabico, Poetry and Fiction Series curator, is the United States editor of Poetry Nation: An Anthology of Spoken Work & Written Poetry. His work appears in more than 20 anthologies, including Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poet’s Café, On a Bed of Rice: Asian American Erotica, and Two Hearts Desired: Gay Couples Write About … Continued
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(1901-1974) Essayist, journalist. Born in Cayey, Puerto Rico. In 1918, Colon was a stowaway on the S.S. Carolina which landed in Brooklyn. He settled in New York City’s Puerto Rican community and took a series of grueling jobs which exposed him to the discrimination and injustice experienced by many Puerto Rican “unskilled” laborers. He became … Continued
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(1935-2023) Lawyer, author. Paul Chevigny was born in Seattle, Washington, and died in Manhattan, New York.