Julia de Burgos

• I Am My Own Path: Selected Writings of Julia de Burgos (dual-language edition: Spanish, English, poetry, essays, letters), ed. Vanessa Pérez-Rosario. University of Texas Press, 2025. • Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (dual-language edition: Spanish, English), trans. Jack Agueros. Curbstone Books, 1997; • Yo misma fui mi ruta, Ediciones Huracán, 1986; • Amor y soledad, Ediciones Torremozas, 1994; • El Mar Y Tu, Ediciones Huracan, 1981; • Cancion De La Verdad Sencilla (Vortice Ser), Ediciones Huracan, 1982; • Poema en Veinte Surcos, Ediciones Huracan, 1983; • Poema Río Grande de Loíza • Poemas exactos de mí misma • Dame tu hora perdída • Ay, ay, ay de la grifa negra

In 1986, the Spanish Department of the University of Puerto Rico posthumously honored Burgos by granting her a doctorate in Human Arts and Letters. Cities that have honored Burgos include: • Carolina, Puerto Rico • Escuela Julia de Burgos • Cleveland, Ohio • Julia De Burgos Cultural Arts Center • New York City, New York • Julia de Burgos Cultural Center • Julia de Burgos Boulevard (corner of East 106th Street and Lexington Avenue) • Julia de Burgos Middle School (M.S. 99) • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Julia de Burgos Elementary School • Julia de Burgos Magnet Middle School • Chicago, Illinois • Julia de Burgos Park • San Juan, Puerto Rico • Casa Protegida Julia de Burgos (domestic violence shelter) • Willimantic, Connecticut • Julia de Burgos Pocket Park established by Curbstone Press • Illustration — Julia de Burgos Park on the corner of Jackson Street and Terry Avenue in Willimantic The Puerto Rican sculptor Tomás Batista sculpted a bust of de Burgos in the Julia de Burgos Park in Carolina. Isabel Cuchí Coll published a book about de Burgos titled Dos Poetisas de América: Clara Lair y Julia de Burgos. Puerto Rican poet Giannina Braschi, who was born the year of de Burgos' death, pays homage to her poetry and legend in the Spanglish novel Yo-Yo Boing! At Yale University, the Latino Cultural Center is named in her honor, La Casa Cultural Julia de Burgos. A documentary about the life of Burgos was made in 2002 titled "Julia, Toda en mi... " (Julia, All in me...) directed and produced by Ivonne Belén. Another biopic about her life, "Vida y poesía de Julia de Burgos," was filmed and released in Puerto Rico in 1978. In New York City, the Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, on 106th Street and Lexington Avenue, is named after her. • Illustration — Bust of Julia de Burgos in Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico On September 14, 2010, in a ceremony held in San Juan, the United States Postal Service honored Burgos' life and literary work with the issuance of a first class postage stamp, the 26th release in the postal system's Literary Arts series. The stamp's portrait was created by Toronto-based artist Jody Hewgill. In 2011, Burgos was inducted into the New York Writers Hall of Fame. There is a plaque, located at the monument to the Jayuya Uprising participants in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, honoring the women of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. Burgos' name is on the sixth line of the third plate. On May 29, 2014, The Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico honored 12 illustrious women with plaques in the "La Plaza en Honor a la Mujer Puertorriqueña" (Plaza in Honor of Puerto Rican Women) in San Juan. According to the plaques each of the 12 women, who by virtue of their merits and legacies, stand out in the history of Puerto Rico. Burgos was among the 12 who were honored. In September 2017, artist-activist Molly Crabapple (herself of Puerto Rican descent) disbursed the profits of the sales of her portrait of de Burgos to the Puerto Rico Hurricane Maria Recovery Fund. The giclée 17″ x 22″ print is captioned with one of the poet's most famous lines: "En todo me lo juego a ser lo que soy yo/I gamble everything to be what I am." In 2018, the New York Times published a belated obituary for her as part of their Overlooked No More series.

By the early 1930s, Burgos had published her work in journals and newspapers. At the intersection of her identity as an Afro-Latina woman in a conservative culture, her work discusses feminism, rebellion, love, social justice, identity, resistance, colonialism, and much more. She published two collections of poetry, Poema en 20 surcos (1938) and Canción de la verdad sencilla (1939) in her lifetime. Her third collection, El mar y tú: otros poemas (1954) was edited and published after her death by her sister, Consuelo Burgos. For her first two books, she traveled around the island promoting her work by giving book readings. Her third book was published posthumously in 1954. Burgos' lyrical poems are a combination of the intimate, the land and the social struggle of the oppressed. Many critics assert that her poetry anticipated the work of feminist writers and poets as well as that of other Hispanic authors. In one of her poems, she writes: "I am life, strength, woman." Burgos received awards and recognition for her work and was celebrated by poets including Pablo Neruda, whom she met in Cuba, and stated that her calling was to be one of the greatest poet of the Americas. Among Burgos' works are: • Poema en veinte surcos (1938) • Canción de la verdad sencilla (1939) • El mar y tú: otros poemas (1954) • Río Grande de Loíza • Poema para Mi Muerte (My Death Poem), • Yo Misma Fui Mi Ruta (I Was My Own Path), • Alba de Mi Silencio (Dawn of My Silence), • Alta Mar y Gaviota