Marta Magaly Quiñones Perez (born 1945) is a Puerto Rican poet.

Quiñones was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1945.[1] She began working as a librarian at the University of Puerto Rico in 1973 and earned a Masters of Comparative Literature from the university in 1981.[1]

She has written poetry, short stories, essays, criticisms and reviews, including at least 14 published volumes.[1][2] She published her first collection of poems, Entre mi voz y el tiempo, in 1969.[3] Her 1985 poetry collection, Nombrar, was honored with a Puerto Rican PEN Club award and a prize from publisher Ediciones Mairena.[4] Her poetry often explores the complicated nature of Caribbean identity.[5]

Works

  • Entre mi voz y el tiempo (1969)
  • Era que el mundo era (1974)
  • Zambayllu (1976)
  • Cosas de poetas (1978)
  • Cantándole a la noche misma (1978)
  • En la pequeña antilla (1982)
  • Nombrar (1985)
  • Razón de lucha, razón de amor (1989)
  • Sueños de papel (1996)
  • Patio de fondo (2004)
  • Mi mundo: palabra de niños (2004)
  • Poemas para los pequeños (2006)
  • Quiero una noche azul (2007)
  • Poemas de pasión y libertad (2009)[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Magaly Quiñones". MaComère. Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars. 5: 297. 2002.
  2. 1 2 Aguirre, Ángel M. (Fall 2011). "Un poemario amoroso de Magaly Quiñones". Confluencia (in Spanish). 27 (1): 188–190. JSTOR 41350555.
  3. ↑ Cana, Carlos Esteban (3 July 2014). "En las letras, desde Puerto Rico: Magaly Quiñones, en su propia voz". El Post Antillano (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 March 2023.
  4. ↑ "Quiñones, Magaly 1945–". encyclopedia.com. Cenage. 2019. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
  5. ↑ Roberts, Nicole (Spring 2007). "Caribbean Identity: An Hispanic Caribbean Perspective". Journal of Caribbean Literatures. 4 (3): 29–49. JSTOR 40986208.
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