The Puerto Rican Literature Project

The poet Roberto Montes was born in New York City, New York in 1988. He received his BFA from Emerson College in 2010 and his MFA in creative writing from the New School in 2013. He is the author of Grievances (TAR, 2017) and I Don’t Know Do You (Ampersand Books, 2014) which was named one of the best books of the year by NPR. In 2014, it was honored as a finalist for The Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. Montes’ literary influences include César Vallejo and Jack Spicer. His poetry has also been published in The Lambda Literary Spotlight, Guernica, and the PEN America Poetry Series, among others. Currently, he works as the associate director of The Poetry Project in New York City, where he says, he is “committed to supporting radical poetry spaces and communities.”

Works Cited

Montes, Roberto. Author Questionnaire. The Puerto Rican Literature Project, 2024.