Capicu Open Mic 4th Anniversary Featuring Felipe Luciano! Poem - Part 2

We are honored and proud to celebrate our 4th year of work in the arts community, and birthday of Capicu cofounder PaPo Swiggity- by featuring one of our most celebrated voices!

A Poet, activist, two-time Emmy recipient, former WNBC-TV news anchor, and lecturer, Felipe Luciano is one of the most dynamic Latino public figures in the United States of the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. His eloquence, vis...ion, and passion for issues of social justice are extraordinary and reminiscent of the oratory talent of civil rights leaders of the 1960s.

Luciano was born in New York City and raised in poverty in East Harlem and Brooklyn by a single Puerto Rican mother. In 1964, at the age of seventeen, Luciano was convicted of attempted manslaughter in the second degree in the State of New York and sentenced to five years in prison. Upon his release, the Harlem antipoverty agency recognized his academic potential and creative talent and urged the young Luciano to apply to college. With the support of the college readiness program, SEEK, he enrolled in the City University of New York Queens College campus, where he immediately became involved in the student activism of the 1960s.

Luciano soon became known within activist circles for his membership in the Last Poets, the group of black power era artists mentored by Amiri Baraka, whose politically charged live-music and spoken word poetry performances in the 1960s prefigured the emergence of hip hop and rap in the 1970s and 1980s.

Under his leadership, the Young Lords Organization changed its name to the Young Lords Party (YLP) and became one of the most influential Puerto Rican organizations of the 1960s.

This is sure to be a monumental event, we're already one of the hottest Open Mics in the city. Make sure you're here to help us make history!
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