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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, educator and activist whose work focuses on environmental issues, on various kinds of injustice and on the Puerto Rican and Latino experience in the United States. She forms part of the Nuyorican Movement, which branched out of the Beat Movement in the United States.

Career

Mercado is the author of It Concerns the Madness (Long Shot Productions). 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) 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. Also featured in The Encyclopedia of Hispanic American Literature (Facts on File) and inducted into The Museum of American Poetics, 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 Productions, 2000.
• if the world were mine. Editor. Newark: New Jersey Performing Arts Center Publication

Anthologies

• The Dead, El Coto Laurel, In my Perfect Puerto Rico, Litany for Change, Milla, No Nothin, On My Return from Puerto Rico. Me No Habla with Acento: Contemporary Latino Poetry. Ed. Emanuel Xavier. New York: Rebel Satori Press, 2011.
• The Day They Went Shopping. Powwow, American Short Fiction from Then to Now. Ed. Ishmael Reed. Philadelphia: Da Capo Press, an imprint of Perseus Books Group, Inc., 2009.
• I Told You. Let Loose on the World: Celebrating Amiri Baraka at 75.Amiri Baraka Newark:Independent Publication, 2009.
• For Jimi Hendrix. Kiss the Sky: Fiction & Poetry Starring Jimi Hendrix. New York: Paycock Press, 2007.
• Milla. Bowery Women Poems. New York: YBK Publishers, Inc., 2006.
• Salomon Mercado. In the Arms of Words: Poems for Tsunami Relief. New York: Foothills Publishing and Sherman Asher Press, 2005.
• Jetties were the Bridges I Crossed, Latino Literature Today. New York: Longman, 2004.
• Milla. From Totems To Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002. Ed. Ishmael Reed. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2003.
• Going To Work. Poetry After 9/11: An Anthology of New York Poets. New Jersey: Melville House Publishers, 2002.
• Justice In The Techno Age and Lyric For A New Life. Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art. Illinois: Third World Press, 2001.
• Somalia. Bum Rush The Page: A Def Jam. New York: Crown Publishing, 2001.
• Jetties Were The Bridges I Crossed. Identity Lessons: Contemporary Writing About Learning to be American. New York: Viking Penguin, 1999.
• Don Portolo. Changer L’Amérique Anthologie De La Poésie Protestataire Des USA. France: Maison De La Poésie, 1998.
• On My Return From Puerto Rico To The US. In Defense Of Mumia. New York: Writers and Readers Press, 1996.
• Milla, and Juanita. ALOUD, Voices From The Nuyorican Poets Café. New York: Henry Holt, 1994.

One-act plays

• Palm Trees in the Snow (1989)
• Chillin (1990)
• Forever Earth (1991)
• It is I; Stay Alive! (1992)
• Planet Earth (1993)
• Alicia in Projectland coauthored with Pedro Pietri (1994)
• AWAY 1996)

Essays

• Biographical entry of Miguel Piñero. The Encyclopedia of Hispanic American Literature. New York: Facts on File, 2009.
• AIDS in My World. Not in My Family: AIDS in the African American Community. Los Angeles, California: Agate Publishers, 2006.
• About Face: My Brief Journey as a Female Puerto Rican Poet. Gare Maritime, Nantes, France: Maison de la Poesie, 2000.
• Youth Performance Workshops Reach Students in Elizabeth. Resource, New Jersey Performing Arts Center Publication, Newark, NJ, 1996.

Other writings

• Mayhem Poets curriculum

See also

• La Red Biografica de Puerto Rico
• The Latino Author
• List of Puerto Rican Writers
• Long Shot
• The Louder Arts Project
• The Museum of American Poetics
• Napalm Health Spa
• PBS Newshour: America Remembers 911
• Pen American Center Page
• Poets & Writers Page
• PoetsUSA.com
• Voices e/Magazine letras
• WBAI Radio Libre, Sunday September 26th 2PM

References

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

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• 1959 births
• Living people
• People from Atlantic City, New Jersey
• American people of Puerto Rican descent
• American poets
• American women writers
• Binghamton University alumni
• New York University alumni
• Nuyorican Poets Café
• Puerto Rican poets
• Puerto Rican women writers
• Rutgers University alumni