Shaggy Flores is a New Generation Nuyorican Poeta, from the Fifth planet of Voltron, orbiting a Sun named Atzlan through the third dimension of Spanglish, in a galaxy called Ricky Martin Andromeda, run by a dictator named George Bushitty, who shoots lasers out of his eyes igniting the gases that exit his rectum every three hours, where the Immigrant Latino Bracero workers collect the fumes to power the planet and its slave inhabitants called oompaloompas of the Ninth Black Order of Jerry Curl Soul Glow.

He’s the author of Sancocho - A Book of Nuyorican Poetry, can be found in The Anthologies Role Call and Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, both edited by Tony Medina [the latter co-edited with Louis Reyes Rivera]. He is one of the founders of the annual Voices for the Voiceless Poetry Concert which occurs in the five college Umass-Amherst area.

Shaggy Flores is also known as Mr. Peabody, a proud member of the Central Virginia Alumni Chapter (Beta Gamma Omega) of Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Incorporated. He is the founder of Dark Souls Press and Aristotle’s Playground, a web and print design consulting group.

A graduate of UMASS-Amherst, he currently works in Virginia as a Public Relations Specialist and is completing a Masters in History at VSU.

He loves Captain Crunch cereal, old reruns of Thundercats, Tranzor Z, The A-Team, Transformers and Three’s Company.

E-mail: webmaster@virginiaisforiotas.com, Website: www.shaggyflores.com