"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.
Photograph of Ntozake Shange as a boxer, photographed by Adál Maldonado in 1993 and dedicated to Mariposa Fernández on the occasion of her wedding to herself on August 11, 2001. Among attendees was actress Rosie Perez. Retouched digitally…
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.
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.
Recording of Poetas Pa' Vieques, an event held on June 13, 2000, organized by Bronx poets Mariposa and her twin sister MelleSoul and held at Café Largo, 3387 Broadway. The event was in support of the liberation struggles of the Puerto…