Jesus “Papoleto” Meléndez

Jesus “Papoleto” Meléndez was raised in East Harlem, poet and is one of the founding poets of the Nuyorican poetry movement. His short-lined, quick-turning poems engage city life through a mosaic of metaphor and song. humor, anger, love and absurdity. Meléndez’s poetry collections
include the bilingual volume, Hey Yo! Yo Soy! 40 Years of Nuyorican Street Poetry: The Collected Work of Jesús Papoleto Melendez (2012, vol. 1).