The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Eduardo "Eddie" Figueroa Condes was a Puerto Rican poet and activist who grew up in East Harlem, New York. In his early 20s, he formed part of the Puerto Rican activist organization, the Young Lords. In 1974, he played the lead in the play “Short Eyes” by Miguel Piñero. Inspired by Piñero’s Nuyorican Poets Café, he founded the arts center, New Rican Village in 1976.

Works Cited

Morales, Ed. “Places in the Puerto Rican Heart.” Ed Morales, edmorales.net/eddie-figueroa-and-the-puerto-rican-imaginary/.

Roseman, Marina. “The New Rican Village: Artists in Control of the Image-Making Machinery.” Latin American Music Review / Revista de Música Laatinoamericana, 1983, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 132-167, jstor.org/stable/780283.