Pa'lante A La Luz: (Charge Into The Light)

One of New York City's biggest literary events, featuring more than 170 scheduled performers, returns to the historic Nuyorican Poets Café on New Year's Day. The 24th annual Alternative New Year's Day Spoken Word / Performance Extravaganza took place on January 1, 2018. The year's theme was "Pa'lante a la Luz (Charge Into The Light )". The Alternative draws an overflow crowd every year.

The Alternative, which continues to be free to the public, features poets, prose writers, monologists, mus...