Rei Berroa

Rei Berroa (born in Gurabo, Dominican Republic, 1949), is a Dominican-American poet, university professor, literary and cultural critic, and translator living in the United States. He has published more than 25 books of poetry, anthologies, translations, and literary criticism.

Biography

In 1983 he received a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, and since 1984 has taught Spanish literature and literary criticism at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

For more than 25 years, he has devoted his poetry, writing, performances, music, teaching, and service in his academic, social, and political community to engagement in a venture he calls “cultural facilitation” or “cultural agency.” This approach has recently been described as a “cultural agent of growth and change through the experience of the arts,” seeking to “increase the impact of creative and scholarly practices by identifying artists, educators, and community leaders who have developed socially productive artistic practices, by reflecting the role of art in building a civil society, and by disseminating best practices through workshops and public forums.”