The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Evaristo Ribera Chevremont was born in 1896 in San Juan, Puerto Rico and died in his hometown in 1976. There, he attended the Lincoln School and the Centro Iberoamericano de San Juan. In 1920, he traveled to Madrid, Spain where he lived until 1924. During his career, he contributed to various literary magazines and newspapers, including La Democracia, La Linterna, Puerto Rico Ilustrado, Revista de las Antillas, Los Quijotes, and El Imparcial, where he also served as executive editor. Ribera Chevremont was a prominent leader of the Avant-garde literary movements in Puerto Rico and introduced a new style called Girandulismo. His works include Romantic Parade (1914), La copa de Hebe (1922); Los almendros del Paseo de Covadonga (Tip. Real Hermanos, 1928); La hora del Orífice (1929); Pajarera (Editorial Poliedro, 1929) y Tierra y sombra (Tip. Florete, 1930), Color (Romero, 1938),  Tonos y formas (Biblioteca de autores puertorriqueños, 1943); Barro (Imprenta Venezuela, 1945); La llama pensativa (1954); Inefable orilla (Imprenta Venezuela, 1961); El semblante (Editorial Universitaria, 1964); Río volcado (Editorial Universitaria, 1968) y El caos de los sueños (Editorial Cordillera, 1974). Together with José S. Alegría, he edited Antología de poetas jóvenes de Puerto Rico (Tip. Real Hermanos, 1918).

Work Cited

Cabrera Salcedo, Lizette. “Evaristo Ribera Chevremont.” EnciclopediaPR, 16 Sept. 2014, https://enciclopediapr.org/content/evaristo-ribera-chevremont/. 

“Evaristo Ribera Chevremont.” Biografías y Vida: La enciclopedia biográfica en línea, 2004-2022, www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/r/ribera_chevremont.htm.

“Ribera Chevremont, Evaristo (1896-1976)”. La web de las biografías, Micronet SA, www.mcnbiografias.com/app-bio/do/show?key=ribera-chevremont-evaristo.