Nemir Matos-Cintrón

This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Matos and the second or maternal family name is Cintrón.

Nemir Matos-Cintrón
Born	1949 Santurce, Puerto Rico
Occupation	Poet, writer, media specialist
Nationality	Puerto Rican
Notable work(s)	Las mujeres no hablan asi, A través del aire y del fuego pero no del cristal' "El arte de morir y La pequeña muerte,"Aliens in NYC."
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Nemir Matos-Cintrón is a Puerto Rican author who currently resides in Florida. She has published several books of poetry and parts of a novel. She has openly thematized her lesbianism in much of her work.^[1][2]

Life

Matos-Cintrón was born on November 19, 1949 in Santurce, Puerto Rico. She attended public schools on the Island and graduated from Central High School at the time when this institution had revolutionized the public school system by bringing in top caliber educators from the University of Puerto Rico mostly, to teach advanced or “gifted” students in a project that produced extraordinary results. Matos-Cintrón graduated from Central High in 1966 at the age of 16. Internal strife in her home life, as portrayed in her autobiographical “fragmento de novela” (fragment of a novel): “Amordio de Amanda,” published recently in the Puerto Rican LGBT anthology Los Otros Cuerpos (2007), made her abandon her parents’ home at the age of 18.^[3] By then, she had proclaimed herself not only as independent, but as a Lesbian. She received her B.A. in Humanities from the University of Puerto Rico and later her Master’s of Science at the prestigious S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. During the 1980s, Matos-Cintrón became an important figure in this field in Puerto Rico. Some of her impressive job titles include: script writer, Executive Producer, Executive Story Editor and professor of Telecommunications, these are but a few of her endeavors which occurred until the 1990s. These same endeavors carried her into her life in exile, first as Lecturer at Brooklyn College to be followed by her work at Hunter College where she developed (in 2000) Puerto Ricans in the USA: A Hundred Years, a 2 volume CD-ROM used in Latino studies.^[4] Eventually, in the decade of 2000, she moved to Florida where she has pursued Doctoral Studies in Educational Instructional Technology and Distance Learning from Nova Southeastern University while being an Instructional designer at Valencia Community College. Matos-Cintrón refers to herself as being a “multimedia individual” and can also be thought of as a true Humanist in terms of her incursion into multifaceted fields in her life—from poetry, to script writing, to producer, to educator, to new media. Matos-Cintrón seems to be constantly immersing herself into challenges of the mind and soul.Recent accolades to her include a homage held in her honor in Puerto Rico under the title "Labiosas" and an invitation to be a Guest Writer at the Festival de la palabra, San Juan, P.R.2010.

Literary Production

Many people think of Matos-Cintrón as belonging to the "generation of 1980" (a Puerto Rican literary group) because that is when her first two books were published. To do this is to deny the magnitude of her work which continues to this day and which still carries on in unpublished poetry. Unfortunately, the literary establishment has abandoned and framed her work as that of a Lesbian spur from her first two books: Las mujeres no hablan así (San Juan, Puerto Rico: Atabex, 1981) and A través del aire y del fuego pero no del cristal (San Juan, Puerto Rico: Atabex, 1981); these two books have begun to attract more attention in 2009.^[5] One of the few people who has written on Matos' poems is the Puerto Rican poet and scholar Luz María Umpierre.

Matos' collection: "El arte de morir" has appeared published, together with the collection "La pequeña muerte," in Puerto Rico in 2010. Her newest poems deal with the subject of exile. They are gathered in the book "Aliens in NYC" with an Introduction by Luz Maria Umpierre (2011, Atabex).

Works

• Las mujeres no hablan así. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Editorial Atabex, 1981. Second edition, 2010.
• A través del aire y del fuego pero no del cristal. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Editorial Atabex, 1981.
• "El arte de morir" and "La pequeña muerte." San Juan, Puerto Rico: Mariita Rivadulla Professional Services, 2010.
• Aliens in NYC. Introduction by Luz Maria Umpierre.New Jersey: Editorial Atabex, 2011.

Secondary Bibliography

• Colón Zayas, Eliseo R. “Insólito y los monstruos del espectador.” El Mundo, Puerto Rico Ilustrado, 13 May 1990, pp. 14–16.

• Cordero, Margarita. “La mujer migrante.” El Mundo, Puerto Rico Ilustrado, 13 May 1990.

• Echeandía, Servando. “Sobre Nemir Matos.” Reintegro, April 1983, p. 12.

• Matos-Cintrón, Nemir. “On Women’s Experimental Film.” 1990 Film Festival sponsored by the Puerto Rican Atheneum, published in Cineasta, no date.

• Ramos Otero, Manuel. "La luna ultrajada." Claridad, Puerto Rico, 1981.

• Umpierre, Luz María. "Visiting Nemir Matos Cintrón." Luzma Speaks (Blog), 22 November 2009.
• Luz Maria Umpierre:
• Nemir Matos Cintron: A Poetic Diva Returns: Dialogo Digital, UPR, On Line, 2011.

• Introduction to Nemir Matos Cintrón’s collection “ Aliens in NYC,” 2011.

• “Una visita a Nemir Matos Cintrón, Revista Surco Sur, Oct.-Dec. 2010.

• Entry on Nemir Matos-Cintrón for Wikipedia. 2009.

• Velázquez, Rosa. “Nemir Matos Cintrón.” Siempre, 13–26 November 2003, p. 18.

See also

	Literature portal
	Puerto Rico portal
	Biography portal
	LGBT portal

• List of lesbian literature
• List of Puerto Rican writers
• Puerto Rican literature

References

1. ^ Rodríguez-Matos, Carlos Antonio. "Matos-Cintrón, Nemir." In Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes, ed. David William Foster, 216-17. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.
2. ^ Sotomayor, Aurea María. "Nemir Matos: de lenguajes y mitos." De lengua, razón y cuerpo (nueve poetas contemporáneas puertorriqueñas): antología y ensayo crítico. San Juan: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 1987. 54-57.
3. ^ Matos-Cintrón, Nemir. “Amordio de Amanda.” In David Caleb Acevedo, Moisés Agosto, and Luis Negrón, eds. Los otros cuerpos: Antología de temática gay, lésbica y queer desde Puerto Rico y su diáspora. San Juan: Editorial Tiempo Nuevo, 2007. 245-51. ISBN 0977361284
4. ^ "First CD-Rom On Puerto Rican History/Culture In The U.S.A. Is Produced by Center at Hunter." Hunter College News (April 2000), retrieved June 4, 2009.
5. ^ La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence. Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. ISBN 9780816640911.

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Name	Matos-Cintron, Nemir
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Date of birth	1949
Place of birth	San Juan, Puerto Rico
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