Portrait of Clemente Soto Vélez

Clemente Soto Vélez

Clemente Soto Vélez (1905–1993) was an influential Puerto Rican poet and activist. He is well known in Puerto Rico for both his poetry and his advocacy for independence. A bilingual selection of his poetry, The Blood That Keeps Singing/La Sangre que Sigue Canta, was published in 2001 by Curbstone Press.

AGNI has published the following work:

from The Promised Land

Poetry by Clemente Soto Vélez Translated from the Spanish by Martín Espada and Camilo Pérez-Bustillo
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