sentences:  Early readings would include performances at the Nuyorican Poets Café, Columbia University, Smith College, Mt.Holyoke College, Springfield College, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and for a poetry troupe created by Louis Reyes Rivera and Felipe Luciano call the Wordquestra in New York City.He would later get to meet and perform with many of the early Nuyorican writers who inspired him to become a writer.