11 Facts About Pedro Pietri

Pedro Pietri was a Puerto Rican poet and playwright and one of the co-founders of the Nuyorican Movement.

Pedro Pietri was considered by some as the poet laureate of the Nuyorican Movement.

Pedro Pietri was greatly influenced by his aunt, who often recited poetry and on occasions put on theatrical plays in the First Spanish Methodist church in El Barrio.

Pedro Pietri himself started to write poems as a student at Haaren High School.

Pedro Pietri helped found the Nuyorican Movement together with Miguel Algarin, Miguel Pinero and Lucky Cienfuegos founders of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

In 1979, Pedro Pietri came out with an LP entitled Loose Joints and later One Is a Crowd which were produced by Folkways Records.

Pedro Pietri would throw condoms at audiences during some of his performances.

Pedro Pietri was a nonconformist, constantly reminding the Movement of the importance of tolerance, intellectual freedom and not losing its humanity.

Pedro Pietri's was a unique voice, both in substance and style, to which failed attempts by all to imitate his reading of his "Puerto Rican Obituary" out loud readily attest.

Pedro Pietri went to Mexico to receive an alternative treatment for a year.

On March 3,2004, Pedro Pietri died en route from Mexico to New York.