A fellow writer recalls Algarín, who once wrote that the poet was “the philosopher of the sugar cane that grows between the cracks of concrete sidewalks.”
Source: New York Times
Remembering Miguel Algarín, a Founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
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