The Puerto Rican Literature Project

The poet, activist, and journalist Luis Felipe Dessús was born in Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico in 1875. His articles and creative work were published in La Democracia, La Justicia, El Mundo, and Puerto Rico Ilustrado, among other publications. In 1915, he served as the director of the Puerto Rican newspapers Puerto Rican Musical and Pomarrosa. Later, he founded the literary magazine, Pancho Ibero, in which much of his work was critical of US imperialism, especially its racism and anti-Blackness (Flaherty- Echeverría). His other published works include Flores y Balas (1916), El Álbum de Guayama (1918), and Rendición (1920). Dessús died in Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1920.
 

Works Cited

Prescott, Laurence E. “Dessús, Luis Felipe.” Oxford Reference, https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780199935796.001.0001/acref-9780199935796-e-637. 

Flaherty-Echeverría, Satty. “Luis Felipe Dessús and US Citizenship for Black Puerto Ricans.” Small Axe. October 2017, https://smallaxe.net/sxsalon/discussions/luis-felipe-dessus-and-us-citizenship-black-puerto-ricans. 

Ramos-Perea, Roberto. Literatura puertorriqueña negra del siglo XIX escrita por negros. San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2011.

Rivera de Álvarez, Josefina y Manuel Álvarez Nazario. Antología general de la literatura puertorriqueña. Ediciones Partenón, Madrid, 1982.