"When I started writing, there were only two women writers that I knew: Lorraine Sutton and Margie Simmons. There were very few Latinas writing in English... So when I started, I was mainly surrounded by men-Pedro Pietri, Jesus Papoleto Melendez, Lucky Cienfuegos, Miguel AlgarÃn, Miguel Piñero, Tato Laviera. Many of them had books already published. I was like a sponge, absorbing different things from these male contemporaries."
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Sandra MarÃa Esteves interview in A Poet's Truth by Bruce Allen Dick
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Pedro Pietri
Pedro Pietri (March 21, 1944–March 3, 2004) was a Nuyorican poet and playwright.
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