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ABOUT #PLPR

Welcome to the Puerto Rican Literature Project (PLPR), a bilingual digital archive dedicated to preserving and celebrating the lives and cultural contributions of Puerto Rican writers from both the archipelago and the diaspora, in Spanish, English, and Spanglish. Created by a team of writers, scholars, translators, and digital humanists with the generous support of the Mellon Foundation, this portal is the result of years of dedication and collective effort. As a living, evolving archive, PLPR continues to grow, expanding its collection to include novelists, short story writers, playwrights, and other authors of creative prose.

At PLPR, we believe that reading is an act of encounter and that poetry serves as a bridge, connecting experiences, emotions, and shared histories. In a world of constant change and resistance—amid threats to our identity, the struggle to preserve our language, and the realities of precarity—this space seeks to fortify the bonds between writers and readers, both within and beyond Puerto Rico.

PLPR is committed to making Puerto Rican poetry accessible, not only to scholars but to all who wish to engage with its depth and richness. More than just an archive of voices, this portal is an open invitation to dialogue, fostering connections between communities and engaging Puerto Rican literature in conversation with the world.

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Featured Author

Francisco Félix Canales Dalmau

Francisco Félix Canales Dalmau was born in 1990 in Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico and raised in Carolina, Puerto Rico. He is the author of Sobre los domingos (2019), Salario Mínimo  (2018), and Norte Invertido (2019), all published by La Impresora, and Esta Isla (Ediciones Alayubia, 2019). Canales Dalmau obtained his BA in sociology with a minor in Hispanic studies. During his studies, he worked as a librarian in the Lázaro Library’s Colección Puertorriqueña. He also acquired an MA in Hispanic studies from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. After finishing his master’s degree, he was accepted into the doctoral program in Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut, which he eventually left to return to Puerto Rico, where he tutored and taught classes. His work has been influenced by poets and writers such as Herta Muller, Albert Camus, Fíodor Dostoievsky, Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, and Guillermo Cabrera Infante. Canales Dalmau’s work has been published on FRACAS and low-fi ardentía. Currently, he lives between San Juan and Isabela, and writes with the support of a Letras Boricuas Fellowship from the Flamboyan Foundation.

Works Cited

Canales Dalmau, Francisco Félix. Interview. Conducted by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, 2 Jan. 2022.

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