The Puerto Rican Literature Project

The poet and journalist, Félix Matos Bernier, was born in Coamo, Puerto Rico in 1869 and died in Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1937. He completed his primary and secondary education in Coamo and Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, respectively. Starting in 1887, he spent three years abroad, living in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Caracas, Venezuela; Martinique, France; and St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, moving or being exiled for political reasons, until returning to Puerto Rico in 1890. He wrote for various periodicals, including El Imparcial, El Mundo, La Democracia, Revista de Puerto Rico, Revista Blanca, and Puerto Rico Ilustrado. Matos Bernier also founded the newspaper La Libertad. His work includes Disonancias (Imprenta El Comercio, 1885), Notas errantes (Establecimiento Tipográfico de M. López, 1885), Nieves y lavas (Tipografía El Telégrafo, 1894), Cantares (Imprenta La Revista Blanca, 1898), Cantos rodados (Imprenta de Francisco J. Marxuach, 1900), and Puesta del sol (Imprenta de San Juan News, 1903). 

Works Cited

Del Rosario, Rubén, et al. Breve Enciclopedia de la Cultura Puertorriqueña. Editorial Cordillera Inc., Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, 1976, p. 286.