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Luis Palés Matos (March 20, 1898 – February 23, 1959) was a Puerto Rican poet who is credited with creating the poetry genre known as Afro-Antillano. He is also credited with writing the screenplay for the "Romance Tropical", the first Puerto Rican film with sound.
Dancers at the San Sebastián Festival in San Juan, in 2013. Before the establishment of the modern festival, a small annual procession dedicated to the Saint Sebastian used to take place along San Sebastián Street (Calle San Sebastián) following a mass dedicated to the martyr as established by Juan Manuel Madrazo, parishioner of San José Church during the 1950s, [4] with the purpose to ...
Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, San Sebastián is subdivided into administrative units called barrios, which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions, [1] (and means wards or boroughs or neighborhoods in English).
Gautier Benítez was born in Caguas, Puerto Rico to Rodulfo Gautier and the Puerto Rican poet, Alejandrina Benitez de Gautier. His great-aunt, María Bibiana Benítez, was also a well known Puerto Rican poet. He was mostly influenced by the exponents of the Romantic poetry of the 19th century. [3]
La sacaj mucho a pasiá . . . Y yo con ganae gritate ¿Y tu agüela, aonde ejtá? A ti te gujta el fojtrote, Y a mi brujca maniguá. Tú te laj tiraj de blanco ¿Y tu agüela, aonde ejtá? Erej blanquito enchapao Que dentraj en sosiedá, Temiendo que se conojca La mamá de tu mamá. Aquí el que no tiene dinga Tiene mandinga . . ¡ja, ja!
Francisco Matos Paoli (March 9, 1915 – July 10, 2000), was a Puerto Rican poet, critic, and essayist who in 1977 was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.His books were rooted in three major literary movements in Latin America: Romanticism, Modernism, and Postmodernism.
San Sebastián barrio-pueblo is a barrio and the administrative center of San Sebastián, a municipality of Puerto Rico.Its population in 2010 was 1,424. [4] [5] [1]As was customary in Spain, in Puerto Rico, the municipality has a barrio called pueblo which contains a central plaza, the municipal buildings (city hall), and a Catholic church.
Juan Boria Romero was born on February 17, 1906, in Dorado, Puerto Rico to Juan Boria Nevárez, a sugar factory engineer, and Anselma Romero Sempri, a housewife. He was of predominant African ancestry and of partial Italian ancestry through his mother.