José Luis Vega

José Luis Vega

José Luis Vega (born 1948 in Santurce, Puerto Rico) 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."[1]

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.

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