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Benitez is one of Puerto Rico's first woman poets. [28] Alejandrina Benítez de Gautier, poet. Benítez de Gautier's collaboration with the "Aguinaldo Puertorriqueño" (Collection of Puerto Rican Poetry) gave her recognition as a great poet. [29] Tomás Blanco, writer and historian. Blanco was the author of "Prontuario Historico de Puerto Rico ...
Jesús Colón (1901–1974) was a Puerto Rican writer known as the Father of the Nuyorican movement. An activist and community organizer, Colón wrote poetry and stories about his experiences as an Afro-Puerto Rican living in New York.
Nevertheless, black Puerto Rican performers such as Sylvia del Villard and Juan Boria recited Palés Matos's poetry. [11] Other figures of Afro-Puerto Rican and Afro-Caribbean poetry include Abelardo Díaz Alfaro (1916–1999) who also wrote Afro-Antillano lyrics and Angelamaria Davila (1944-2003) who wrote Afro-feminist poetry in the 1970s ...
Puerto Rican poets by century (3 C) + Puerto Rican LGBTQ poets (6 P) Puerto Rican male poets (10 P) Puerto Rican women poets (13 P) P. Poets from Ponce (5 P)
This is a list of notable Puerto Ricans of significant African ancestry, including visually mixed-race individuals, which represents a significant portion of the Puerto Rican population. It includes people born in or living in the mainland United States, some of whom may be of full Puerto Rican ancestry while others only partially Puerto Rican ...
Denis Rosario is a former president of the Puerto Rican PEN International Centre (2012–13). [1] [6] She has been a guest columnist for El Nuevo Día newspaper, has taught at Ana G. Méndez University and at Metropolitan University, and since 2015 has taught at UPR-RP, where she is a professor of literature. [2]
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 ] .
Piri Thomas (born Juan Pedro Tomas; September 30, 1928 – October 17, 2011) was an American writer and poet of Puerto Rican-Cuban descent, whose memoir Down These Mean Streets became a best-seller. Early years