Nancy Mercado

Nancy Mercado Ph.D. (Born December 1959) is an American writer, editor, educator and activist; her work focuses on issues of injustice, the environment, and the Puerto Rican and Latino experience in the United States.[1] She forms part of the Nuyorican Movement, a literary genre which arose from the Beat Movement.

Nancy Mercado
Photo Ricardo Muniz
OccupationWriter, poet, activist
NationalityPuerto Rican
EducationBinghamton University- SUNY (PhD)

New York University (M.A.)

Rutgers University - New Brunswick (B.A.)
Literary movementPost Beat
Nuyorican
Postmodernism
Notable awardsAmerican Book Award for Lifetime Achievement (2017)
The Frederick Douglass 200 (2019)
Website
nancy-mercado.com

Life and education

Mercado was born and raised in Atlantic City, New Jersey. She received a B.A. from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in 1982, with a double major in art/art history and Puerto Rican Studies, and her M.A. from New York University in Liberal Studies with a concentration in script writing and Cinema Studies (1989). In 1989 she was accepted into the School of Drama at Yale University but had to leave toward the end of the first semester due to her financial situation. Her doctoral degree was awarded in 2004 in English literature, with a concentration in creative writing, from Binghamton University.[2]

Career

Mercado began her literary career in 1979; as such, some consider her to be part of the second wave of writers who constitute the Nuyorican literary movement. Of her work, Dr. Marilyn Kiss writes, "if the personal is political, then such verses as, "He was forgotten/before he could be remembered/by the heads of state/he provided sugar for," written about her grandfather, Don Portolo, "Director of the Sugar Cane Field Workers", and "Milla can speak of/The turn of the century land reforms,/Of the blinded enthusiasm/For a man called Marín..." about her grandmother, Milla, and "Juanita, Providing food from soil,/Creating homes from ashes,/Teaching tolerance by living..." about her aunt in Puerto Rico, offer testimony to the power of this type of poetic vision."[3]

Mercado's book of poems; It Concerns the Madness (Long Shot Productions), was published in 2000.[4] In 2005 she served on the editorial board for a special issue of Letras Femeninas; a publication of the Asociación Internacional De Literatura Femenina Hispánica, Department of Languages and Literature, Arizona State University.[5] Latino Leaders Magazine's 2007 issue profiled her as "one of the most celebrated members of the Puerto Rican literary movement in the Big Apple."[6]

In 2011 Mercado was guest editor of phati’tude Literary Magazine's winter issue ¿What's in a Nombre? Writing Latin@ Identity in America.[7]

Mercado's film, video and radio features include the 1990s Poetry Spots video series directed by Bob Holman, the documentary film, Yari, Yari Pamberi Black Women Writers Dissenting Globalization[8] directed by Jayne Cortez, the 2011 PBS NewsHour documentary special; America Remembers 9/11.[9] and, National Public Radio's, The Talk of the Nation program; Subdued Reflection On Sept. 11 Anniversary in 2012.[10]

Bibliography

Books
  • Las Tres Hermanas... children's coloring book. New York City: Casita Maria, 2017
  • Nuyorican Writers Anthology. Editor. New York City: Centro, Hunter College City University of New York, 2015
  • It Concerns the Madness. Hoboken: Long Shot Productions, 2000. ISBN 0965473856
  • if the world were mine... the young writer's workshop anthology. Editor. Newark: New Jersey Performing Arts Center Publication and United Way of Essex and West Hudson, 2003.

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
  • "Ser o no ser Nuyorican." La Ventana. Havana, Cuba: Casa de las Americas, 2014.
  • "About Face: My Brief Journey as a Female Puerto Rican Poet." Gare Maritime. Nantes, France: Maison de la Poesie, 2000.
  • "AIDS in My World." Not in My Family: AIDS in the African American Community. Editor. Gil L. Robertson IV. Los Angeles, California: Agate Publishers, 2006. ISBN 1932841245
  • "Miguel Piñero." (Biographical entry.) The Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature. Editor. Luz Elena Ramírez. New York: Facts on File, 2009.
  • "Youth Performance Workshops Reach Students in Elizabeth." Resource. Newark, NJ: New Jersey Performing Arts Center Publication, 1996.
gollark: Chunks near spawn are always loaded, right? Could someone make two blocks of space for it around there?
gollark: Why isn't my skynet relay chunkloaded? It has a weirding gadget.
gollark: Which means you want this bit: http://krist.ceriat.net/docs/#api-WebsocketGroup to connect to the node via websocket, and then listen for transaction events, and then maybe make transactions.
gollark: I'm sure someone said that before.
gollark: How To Shops:* Listen for transactions* Process transaction (check it's for you, has enough money, etc, and then maybe dispense stock)* Send back money, if you need to do a refund

See also

Further reading

References
  1. PEN American Center Member Profile. "Nancy Mercado." PEN.org, retrieved May 19, 2012.
  2. Mercado, Nancy. "Rooms for the Living: New York Poems." PhD diss., State University of New York at Binghamton, 2004. Listed in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, retrieved May 19, 2012. ProQuest document ID 305071933.
  3. Kiss, Marilyn. "Nancy Mercado." In The Encyclopedia of Hispanic American Literature, ed. Luz Elena Ramírez, 224-225. New York: Facts on File, 2009. ISBN 0-8160-6084-3.
  4. Mercado, Nancy. It Concerns the Madness. Hoboken, NJ : Long Shot, 2000. ISBN 0965473856.
  5. Letras Femeninas (Encuentros Transatlánticos) 31.1 (Summer 2005)
  6. Pedrero. Latino Leaders Magazine. 7.6 (2007): 76.
  7. SBWIRE. "Nancy Mercado Set to Guest Edit phati’tude’s Groundbreaking Latin@ Issue for Winter 2012." SBWire.com Nov. 28, 2011, retrieved May 19, 2012.
  8. Third World Newsreel. "Yari Yari Pamberi: Black Women Writers Dissecting Globalization." Archived 2012-03-14 at the Wayback Machine libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/emro/about.asp 2007, retrieved Jan. 2, 2013.
  9. PBS NewsHour. "Special Report: America Remembers 9/11" PBS Video, retrieved May 19, 2012.
  10. NPR Books, Special Series Poetry. "Subdued Reflection On Sept. 11 Anniversary" NPR.org Sept. 11, 2012, retrieved January 2, 2013.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.