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Javier Sologuren
Javier Sologuren Moreno (1921–2004) was a Peruvian poet, essayist, translator, and artisan publisher, a central figure of twentieth-century Peruvian poetry and of the poetic group of 1945.
Jean Métellus
Jean Métellus (1937–2014) was a Haitian poet, novelist, playwright, and neurologist who left Haiti in 1959 under the Duvalier dictatorship and spent his life in exile in France.
Jean-Claude Charles
Jean-Claude Charles (1949–2008) was a Haitian poet, novelist, essayist, and journalist who spent his career in exile and coined the term enracinerrance for permanent displacement.
João Cabral de Melo Neto
João Cabral de Melo Neto (1920–1999) was a Brazilian poet and diplomat, considered the most important Brazilian poet of the second half of the twentieth century.
Joaquín Pasos
Joaquín Pasos (1914–1947) was a Nicaraguan poet and the youngest member of the Movimiento de Vanguardia; his best-known poem is "Canto de guerra de las cosas".
Jorge de Lima
Jorge de Lima, full name Jorge Mateus de Lima, was a Brazilian poet and novelist from Alagoas (1893–1953), known for the epic poem Invenção de Orfeu.
Jorge Gaitán Durán
Jorge Gaitán Durán (1924–1962) was a Colombian poet and editor known for founding and directing the cultural journal Mito and for poetry centered on eroticism and death.
José Antonio Ramos Sucre
José Antonio Ramos Sucre (1890, Cumaná – 1930, Geneva) was a Venezuelan prose poem writer, largely ignored in life, now seen as the country's finest twentieth-century poet.
José Asunción Silva
José Asunción Silva (1865–1896) was a Colombian poet and prose writer, a pioneer of modernismo whose musical, pessimistic Nocturnos influenced Rubén Darío and Spanish American literature.
José Basílio da Gama
José Basílio da Gama (1740 or 1741–1795) was a Luso-Brazilian Arcadismo poet, best known for the epic O Uraguai of 1769 about the campaign against the Guaraní Jesuit missions.
José Coronel Urtecho
José Coronel Urtecho (1906–1994) was a Nicaraguan poet, translator, and diplomat born in Granada who founded the Vanguardia movement and introduced North American poetry into Central American literature.
José de Diego
José de Diego y Martínez (1866–1918) was a Puerto Rican poet, lawyer, and orator known as the Father of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement and Speaker of the legislature from 1907.
José de Santa Rita Durão
José de Santa Rita Durão, born José Luís de Morais, was a Brazilian Augustinian friar and poet who wrote the epic poem Caramuru, a founding work of Brazilian literature.
José Emilio Pacheco
José Emilio Pacheco (1939–2014) was a Mexican poet, novelist, essayist, and translator, one of the most important writers of twentieth-century Mexican literature.
José Gorostiza
José Gorostiza (1901–1973) was a Mexican poet, essayist, and diplomat of the Contemporáneos group, best known for the philosophical long poem Muerte sin fin (1939).
José Joaquín de Olmedo
José Joaquín de Olmedo (1780–1847) was an Ecuadorian poet and statesman, first vice president of Ecuador and author of the ode La victoria de Junín.
José Joaquín Pesado
José Joaquín Pesado (1801–1861) was a Mexican poet, translator, and politician remembered for his religious verse and Las aztecas (1854), which first brought ancient Mexican songs into poetry.
José Manuel Arango
José Manuel Arango Pérez (1937–2002) was a Colombian poet, essayist, and translator from Antioquia who published four slim books of poems and influenced later Colombian poetry.
José María Heredia
José María Heredia (1803–1839) was a Cuban poet and exile, regarded as the initiator of Romanticism in Spanish America, best known for his odes to Niagara and Cholula.
José Mármol
José Pedro Crisólogo Mármol (1817–1871) was an Argentine poet, novelist, journalist, and politician opposed to the dictator Rosas, whose novel Amalia (1855) is considered the first Argentine novel.
José Rosas Moreno
José Rosas Moreno, full name José Ignacio Rosas Moreno (1838–1883), was a Mexican poet and fabulist from Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, remembered as the leading fabulist of nineteenth-century Mexico.
José Santos Chocano
José Santos Chocano, called "El Cantor de América," was a Peruvian poet and diplomat (1875–1934) and a leading voice of Latin American modernismo, known for his 1906 collection Alma América.
Josefina Plá
Josefina Plá was a Spanish-born poet, playwright, ceramicist, and historian who moved to Paraguay in the 1920s, led the Generación del 40, and pioneered feminist writing there.
Jotamario Arbeláez
Jotamario Arbeláez, pen name of José Mario Arbeláez Ramos (born 1940, Cali), is a Colombian poet who led the Nadaísmo movement in Cali and won national poetry prizes.
Juan de Dios Peza
Juan de Dios Peza (1852–1910) was a Mexican lyric poet known as "el poeta del hogar" (the poet of the home), best remembered for the widely recited poem "Reír llorando."
Juan Gelman
Juan Gelman (1930–2014) was an Argentine poet who won the 2007 Premio Cervantes, his work marked by the Dirty War disappearance of his son and his own exile.
Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda
Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda (1948–2022) was a Colombian poet, essayist, literary critic, and diplomat who directed the magazine Eco and served as ambassador to Greece.
Juan Laurentino Ortiz
Juan Laurentino Ortiz, known as Juanele, was an Argentine poet of Entre Ríos whose work, written almost entirely beside its rivers, is among the major poetic achievements of 20th-century Argentine literature.
Juan Zorrilla de San Martín
Juan Zorrilla de San Martín (1855–1931) was a Uruguayan romantic poet, known as the "Poeta de la Patria", best remembered for the epic poem Tabaré.
Julia de Burgos
Julia de Burgos (1914–1953) was a Puerto Rican poet and activist known for feminism and themes of Puerto Rican independence, considered a foremother of Nuyorican poetry.