The greatest Puerto Rican Poet, celebrated literary icon of the Americas whose themes of Blackness, feminism, love, migration, nationalism & nature helped birth the 1960s Nuyorican movement. A teacher, activist & journalist, born Feb. 1914 in Carolina, PR. She began adding “de” before Burgos in 1937 as a defiant feminist act to reclaim herself. Harlem Hospital declared Burgos dead July 6, 1953. She was buried in Carolina, fulfilling a wish for her bones to “fortify worms from there” & not on US soil. In life, she won Institutos de Literatura & Cultura Puertorriqueña poetry prizes (1939, 1946). In death, Burgos garnered a UPR honorary doctorate (1987), 44¢ US stamp (2010) & numerous streets, schools, parks & cultural centers adopted her name. She published 4 books of poems 'Poemas exactos a mí misma,' 'Poema en veinte surcos,' 'Canción de la verdad sencilla,' & 'El mar y tú.'More details: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/julia-de-burgos-1914-1953/