Magaly Quiñones

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. "Magaly Quiñones". MaComère. Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars. 5: 297. 2002.
  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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