José Luis Vega
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José Luis Vega is a Puerto Rican poet and academic
In 1972, Vega founded Ventana a poetry magazine that "marked a deliberate distance from the social realist poetry that was in vogue at the time in the country, in favor of a form of writing that was more self-relfexive and intimate."
Vega is currently a professor of Spanish-American poetry at the University of Puerto Rico
, Río Piedras, where he is also Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Director of the Academia Puertorriqueña de la Lengua Española.
In 1972, Vega founded Ventana a poetry magazine that "marked a deliberate distance from the social realist poetry that was in vogue at the time in the country, in favor of a form of writing that was more self-relfexive and intimate."
Vega is currently a professor of Spanish-American poetry at the University of Puerto Rico
University of Puerto Rico
The University of Puerto Rico is the state university system of Puerto Rico. The system consists of 11 campuses and has approximately 64,511 students and 5,300 faculty members...
, Río Piedras, where he is also Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Director of the Academia Puertorriqueña de la Lengua Española.
Publications
- Comienzo del canto (1965)
- Signos vitales (1974)
- Las natas de los parpados / Suite erótica (1974)
- Letra viva (anthology)
See also
- List of Puerto Rican writers
- List of Famous Puerto Ricans
- Puerto Rican literature
External links
- brief biography
- A conversation about Spanish-American poetry with Vega, José Marmol, and Pedro Granados