{"id":1081,"date":"2014-06-27T20:57:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T00:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philvelez.com\/blog\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2014-06-27T20:57:51","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T00:57:51","slug":"samuel-diaz-carrions-launch-party-for-our-nuyorican-thing-sunday-june-29th-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philvelez.com\/blog\/?p=1081","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Diaz Carrion\u2019s Launch Party for \u201cOur Nuyorican Thing\u201d &#8211; Sunday, June 29th, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Samuel Diaz Carrion\" href=\"http:\/\/2leafpress.org\/online\/author-samuel-diaz-carrion\/\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Diaz Carrion<\/a> is having his Launch Party for his recently released book, <a title=\"Our Nuyorican Thing\" href=\"http:\/\/2leafpress.org\/online\/our-nuyorican-thing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Our Nuyorican Thing, The Birth of a Self-Made Identity<\/a> on Sunday, June 29th at 2:00-3:30PM at <a title=\"Taller Boricua \" href=\"http:\/\/www.tallerboricua.org\" target=\"_blank\">Taller Boricua<\/a> in New York City.\u00a0The event will be hosted by legendary Nuyorican poet, <a title=\"Jesus Papoleto Melendez\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jes%C3%BAs_Papoleto_Mel%C3%A9ndez\" target=\"_blank\">Jes\u00fas Papoleto Mel\u00e9ndez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Poet, writer and activist Diaz Carrion explores the question, &#8220;What is a Nuyorican&#8221;? and more in OUR NUYORICAN THING. What started out as blog correspondence for the Nuyorican Poets Cafe\u2019s website (2001-2004), quickly turned into a cultural exchange about the Cafe and Puerto Rican culture. OUR NUYORICAN THING is a compendium of those blog entries and emails that also include poetry and short prose through the eyes of Diaz Carrion, a \u201cPuerto Rican Indiana Jones\u201d who has quietly studied \u201cthe trade route of a new language . . . collecting poetry and stories as the artifacts of the day.\u201d This collection is riveting, informative and delightful, and will satisfy any reader with a cultural appetite. OUR NUYORICAN THING&#8217;s introduction by Puerto Rican poet, performer, professor, and polemicist, <a title=\"Urayo\u00e1n Noel\" href=\"http:\/\/urayoannoel.com\" target=\"_blank\">Urayo\u00e1n Noel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Join Diaz Carrion this <a title=\"Our Nuyorican Thing - Flyer\" href=\"http:\/\/2leafpress.org\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/diaz-book-party-flyer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday afternoon<\/a> as he shares his prose and poetry as he enlightens us about the Nuyorican experience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">TALLER BORICUA<br \/>\n1680 Lexington Avenue, NYC | 212.831.4333<br \/>\nEntrance on Lexington Avenue between 105th and 106th Streets<br \/>\nSubway: 6 Train to 103rd Street<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philvelez.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/diaz-sam-our-nuyorican-thing-front-cover-6x9.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1083\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philvelez.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/diaz-sam-our-nuyorican-thing-front-cover-6x9-200x300.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"diaz-sam-our-nuyorican-thing-front-cover-6x9\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philvelez.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/diaz-sam-our-nuyorican-thing-front-cover-6x9.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philvelez.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/diaz-sam-our-nuyorican-thing-front-cover-6x9.jpg?w=450&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fphilvelez.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D1081&amp;layout=standard&amp;&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=dark\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; 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