doi:10.7916/rmnq-fs43Efrain Ortiz - Performance Sample (44)Ortiz, Efraínvideo recordingsmoving imagePoets, Puerto RicanCaribbean poetry (Spanish)Caribbean poetryBoston Cable TelevisionEfraín Ortiz, a Puerto Rican 'declamador' (reciter) of verso negro, an African-influenced style of poetry that arose in Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic from the 1920s through the 1940s.