I caught the last half of Piñero recently and was really struck by Bratt's performance, it is truly haunting. I also got a kick out of spotting all the poets' cameo appearances.
The true story of the creative but troubled life of poet/playwright/actor Miguel Piñero (Benjamin Bratt), the Latin-American icon whose urban poetry is considered a pre-cursor to rap and hip-hop.
A native New Yorker born to Puerto Rican & Sicilian parents in Spanish Harlem's El Barrio, Literanista is a published poet, a writer, a social media strategist who formerly worked at Hachette Book Group, scouts the ever-changing Web landscape & is working on her debut novel & about a million other things.
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