The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Blas Falconer was born and raised in Virginia. He is a Puerto Rican poet and editor. Falconer earned his undergraduate degree from George Mason University, an M.F.A. from the University of Maryland in 1997, and a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston in 2002. His published works include The Perfect Hour (2006), A Question of Gravity and Light (2007), The Foundling Wheel (2012), Forgive the Body This Failure (2018), and Rara Avis (2024). Falconer co-edited Mentor & Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets with Beth Martinelli and Helena Mesa (2010) and The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity with Lorraine M. López (2011). He was editor for the literary journal Zone 3 and Zone 3 Press and serves as the poetry editor for the Los Angeles Review. He has been awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers, a Tennessee Individual Artist Grant, the New Delta Review Eyster Prize for Poetry and the Barthelme Fellowship. He teaches at San Diego State University.

Works Cited

“A Meditation on the Experience and Aesthetics of the Other Rican.” The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity, edited by Blas Falconer and Lorraine M. López, U of Arizona P, 2011.

Atkins, Cynthia. “Blas Falconer in Conversation with Cynthia Atkins.” American Microreviews & Interviews, www.americanmicroreviews.com/blas-falconer-interview.

Falconer, Blas. “Puerto Rican Poetry and Dreams of the Independence: A Family Affair.” Taos Journal of Poetry, no. 6, 28 February 2015, www.taosjournalofpoetry.com/issue-6/blas-falconer.

Newman, Rochelle. “Blas Falconer, Poet”. Lunch Ticket, https://lunchticket.org/blas-falconer-author/.

Paramo, Sebastian H. “An Interview with Blas Falconer.” Letras Latinas Blog, Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame, 21 October 2013, letraslatinasblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/an-interview-with-blas-falconer.html.

“Puerto Rican Poetry and Dreams of the Independence: A Family Affair.” Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry, edited by Ruben Quesada, U of New Mexico P, 2022.