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Quiero empezar diciendo que no estamos reunidos hoy para decir, reunidos aquí hoy estamos… I was born in Ponce en Puerto Rico y cuando tenía tres años my family moved to New York and we settled down in Spanish Harlem, where my neighbors were Puertorriqueños like me dressed in ropical garments.

I can recall mi tía reciting poetry and that influenced me in a great way. By the time I was in high school I started writing poetry and as then the problem still is that I escribo en español pero la maquinilla lo pasa en inglés.