The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Juan Calderón Escobar was born in 1902 in San Juan, Puerto Rico and died in 1942. He was a poet, journalist and essayist affiliated with the Atalayista group. Some of his poems include "Saludo a la bandera Atalayista," "Círculos" and "Elementos," among others. His works include Bajo la tapa comba (Imprenta Linares, 1923), La Tierra da en la luna (Puerto Rico Progress, 1935), and Motivos del nuevo Job (Imprenta Romero, 1939). 

Works Cited

“Clemente Soto Vélez”. EnciclopediaPR. 2020. https://enciclopediapr.org/content/clemente-soto-velez/ 

“Juan Calderón Escobar”. Los poetas atalayistas, 2008, https://atalayadelosdioses.tripod.com/juancalderonescobar.htm. 

Soto Vélez, C. "Del atalayismo: Acracia atalayista". Vanguardia latinoamericana, Tomo II: Historia, crítica y documentos. Caribe, Antillas Mayores y Menores, edited by Klaus Müller-Bergh and Gilberto Mendonça Teles, Frankfurt a. M., Madrid: Vervuert Verlagsgesellschaft, 2002, pp. 170-1, https://doi.org/10.31819/9783964564191-039.