José Luis Vega

Who is José Luis Vega?

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.