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'''Nancy Mercado''' (December, 1959) is a writer, poet, editor, and teacher. |
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'''Nancy Mercado''' (December, 1959) is a writer, poet, editor, educator and activist whose work focuses on environmental issues, on various kinds of injustice and on the [[Puerto Ricans in the United States|Puerto Rican]] and [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Latino]] experience in the [[United States]]. She forms part of the [[Nuyorican Movement]], which branched out of the [[Beat Movement]] in the United States. |
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== Career == |
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Mercado is the author of ''It Concerns the Madness'' (Long Shot Productions).[http://longshot.org/books/mercado/index.htm] She served as the editor of, ''if the world were mine''; a children’s anthology published by the [[New Jersey Performing Arts Center]] (NJPAC), was an editor of ''Long Shot'' (1993–2004)[http://longshot.org] and the publication’s editor-in-chief for one of those years. She also served as a contributing editor and writer for ''Letras Femeninas volume XXXI, No 1: The Journal of the Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica'' of Arizona State University. |
Mercado is the author of ''It Concerns the Madness'' (Long Shot Productions).[http://longshot.org/books/mercado/index.htm] She served as the editor of, ''if the world were mine''; a children’s anthology published by the [[New Jersey Performing Arts Center]] (NJPAC), was an editor of ''Long Shot'' (1993–2004)[http://longshot.org] and the publication’s editor-in-chief for one of those years. She also served as a contributing editor and writer for ''Letras Femeninas volume XXXI, No 1: The Journal of the Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica'' of Arizona State University. |
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 Nancy Mercado at the Nuyorican Poets Café, 2008 | |
| Occupation | Writer, poet |
| Nationality | Puerto Rican |
| Literary movement | Post Beat, Nuyorican, Postmodernism |
Nancy Mercado (December, 1959) is a writer, poet, editor, and teacher.
Mercado is the author of It Concerns the Madness (Long Shot Productions).[1] She served as the editor of, if the world were mine; a children’s anthology published by the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), was an editor of Long Shot (1993–2004)[2] and the publication’s editor-in-chief for one of those years. She also served as a contributing editor and writer for Letras Femeninas volume XXXI, No 1: The Journal of the Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica of Arizona State University.
Mercado was featured on PBS Newshour in America Remembers 911. [3] Also featured in The Encyclopedia of Hispanic American Literature (Facts on File) and inducted into The Museum of American Poetics,[4] Mercado was profiled in Latino Leaders Magazine, Volume 7 No 6 as "one of the most celebrated members of the Puerto Rican literary movement in the Big Apple".
Bibliography
Books
- It Concerns the Madness. Hoboken: Long Shot [5] Productions, 2000.
- if the world were mine. Editor. Newark: New Jersey Performing Arts Center Publication
Resources
- Ramirez, Luz Elena (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Hispanic American Literature. New York: Facts on File, 2009. ISBN 0-8160-6084-3
Further reading
- The Balance of Understanding, Tribes Magazine
- A Blow by Blow, Volume by Volume History of Long Shot, Long Shot
- Book Reviewing African-American Style, The Nation
- End of an era Long Shot to cease publishing, The Hudson Reporter
- First on the Listening List, Top of the Reading Stack for 2001, About.com
- Making the Decolonized Visible: Puerto Rican Poetry of the Last Four Decades, Centro Journal CUNY
- Nuyoricans jubiliant about Supreme Court nominee, San Francisco Chronicle
- Remembering Gregory Corso, The Hudson Reporter
- Yari Yari Pamberi Black Women Writers Dissecting Globalization, Educational Media Reviews