• Anthologies

• Movies

• Plays

Anthologies

• Nuyorican Poetry: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Words and Feelings (1975), Miguel Algarin and Miguel Piñero, eds. with Gil Mendez, photographer
  The publication of this collection of poetry marked an important literary and cultural event. It was the first attempt to collect the poetic work of emerging New York Puerto Rican writers, who define themselves as Nuyorican. The anthology was edited by two of the writers who have played a leading role in fostering and supporting literary activity by this generation. Algar'n intended his introduction to the book as a Nuyorican poetic manifesto postulating the emergence of a new poetry with its own poetic and ideological principles. Algar'n is the founder and proprietor of the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe in New York City.

Movies

• Alphabet City (1984)

• Miami Vice (TV) (1984)

• Deal of the Century (1983)

• Exposed (1983)

• Fort Apache the Bronx (1981)

• Times Square (1980)

• Streets of L.A. (1979)

• The Jericho Mile (1979)

• Looking Up (1977)

• Short Eyes (1977)

Plays

• Outrageous One Act Plays (1986)
  A collection of six plays, which are best described as shocking, sizzling and outrageous. Piñera finds comedy, hilarity, paradox and pathos in such unlikely places as subway toilets, pimp bars, drug "shooting galleries," crowded tenements and in the writer's own struggles with his Smith-Corona and penury. "...Piñero's portraits of contemporary urban society are dead on; ... this drama reveals him to have both a comic flair and a sensibility capable of revealing those demons that haunt, that beset, our times and their finest minds."

• La Bodega Sold Dreams (1985)
  "La Bodega Sold Dreams mixes ghetto invective and a feverish sentimentality, machismo swagger, and its reverse, a soft quality that is inadmissible to life except in art and has no proper name" (Village Voice.)

• The Sun Always Shines for the Cool: A Midnight Moon at the Greasy Spoon; Eulogy for a Small Time Thief (1984)

• Short Eyes: A Play (1975) -- Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award
  This powerful drama of prison life is set in a house of detention where a group of young convicts-predominantly black and Puerto Rican-taunt, fight, insult, and entertain one another in an attempt to preserve their sanity and to create a semblance of community. When a young white prisoner accused of child molesting is thrown into the cell block by a guard who says he belongs in Sing Sing because "the men up there know what to do with degenerates like you," the stage is set for an explosive series of events; for, among prisoners, this child molester called "short eyes" is the lowest of criminals.

• Midnight Moon at the Greasy Spoon (Date?)

• The Sun Always Shines for the Cool (Date?)