Photograph of Mariposa Fernández posing with twin sister Melissa Isabel Fernández ("melleSOL") in front of father's Chevrolet Reliant, after Mariposa's first poem, "Ode to the Nuyorican," was published in New York Newsday.
Second-grade class photo of Mariposa Fernández class at Immaculate Conception School, located at 760 East Gun Hill Road. Mariposa is in third row from bottom at the far right. Her twin sister is on the same row, third from left.
"Ode to the Nuyorican," the first published poem of Mariposa Fernández, published in New York Newsday on June 11, 1995, in a feature spread with poetry by other Puerto Rican poets.