Jack Agüeros



Jack Agüeros (born 1934 in East Harlem) is a community activist, poet, writer, and translator. From 1977 to 1986 was the director of the Museo del Barrio in New York City.

After serving for four years in the United States Air Force as a guided missile instructor, he earned a BA in English from Brooklyn College and an MA in Urban Studies from Occidental College. He began writing essays in the 1970s, and his first poems appear in an early landmark anthology of Puerto Rican literature, entitled Borinquen, published by Knopf in 1974. Agüeros, who specializes in the sonnet, did not publish his first book of poetry until 1991.

Agüeros's "work deals with the complexities, challenges, and struggles of the Puerto Rican experience in America."

Publications

 * Lord, Is This a Psalm? (Hanging Loose Press, 2002)
 * Sonnets from the Puerto Rican (1996)
 * Dominoes & Other Stories from the Puerto Rican (1993)
 * Correspondence Between Stonehaulers (1991)
 * Editor, Immigrant Experience: The Anguish of Becoming American (Dial, 1992)
 * Translator, Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (Curbstone Press, 1996)