This website is dedicated to one of the most influential Nuyorican poets, Tato Laviera. We chose him because we consider the themes of his writing really important in these days we are living and because he has a refreshing way of expressing himself. He can write about serious matter but then make a poem with lots of humor in it. For this, and many more reasons, Tato Laviera's legacy that is his work must carry on with us until the end of our days.
"In contrast to other Nuyorican poets who emphasize the negative aspects of the Puerto Rican experience, Laviera's poetry is of an optimistic bent: "his poetry is a documentation of painful dualities, of uncertainities; it is also testimony of the strenght of the Puerto Ricans in New York who have defended their distintness"."
-Carmen Dolores Hernández