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Puerto Rican women poets (9 P) P. Poets from Ponce (5 P) Pages in category "Puerto Rican poets" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total.
New York, NY. Occupation. Poet, playwright. Nationality. Puerto Rican. Literary movement. Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Pedro Pietri (March 21, 1944 – March 3, 2004) was a Puerto Rican poet and playwright and one of the co-founders of the Nuyorican Movement. He was considered by some as the poet laureate of the Nuyorican Movement.
Puerto Rican. Period. 1960s - present. Literary movement. Nuyorican. Notable awards. International Griffin Poetry Prize; Guggenheim Foundation and NEA fellowships. Victor Hernández Cruz (born February 6, 1949) is a Puerto Rican poet. In 1981, Life magazine named him one of America 's greatest poets.
Occupation. poet. Nationality. Puerto Rican. Lola Rodríguez de Tió (September 14, 1843 – November 10, 1924) was the first Puerto Rican -born woman poet to establish herself a reputation as a great poet throughout all of Latin America. [1] A believer in women's rights, she was also committed to the abolition of slavery and the independence ...
Notable nationalists. v. t. e. Julia Constanza Burgos García (February 17, 1914 – July 6, 1953), also known as Julia de Burgos, was a Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and teacher. [1] As an advocate of Puerto Rican independence, she served as Secretary General of the Daughters of Freedom, the women's branch of the Puerto Rican Nationalist ...
Puerto Rican literature is the body of literature produced by writers of Puerto Rican descent. It evolved from the art of oral storytelling. Written works by the indigenous inhabitants of Puerto Rico were originally prohibited and repressed by the Spanish colonial government [citation needed]. It was not until the late 19th century, with the ...
Miguel Algarín. Miguel Algarín Jr. (11 September 1941 – 30 November 2020) [1] was a Puerto Rican poet, writer, co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café, and a Rutgers University professor of English. [2]
In 1861, new poems by Benítez de Gautier which were published in the local journals began to appear. Among her best known poem of the time was "A Submarine Cable to Puerto Rico". In said poem she pays tribute to the knowledge and engineering that went into the establishment of telegraph service between Puerto Rico and St. Thomas.