Julia de Burgos - Honors

Honors

On February 19, 1987, the Spanish Department of the University of Puerto Rico posthumously honored Julia de Burgos by granting her a doctorate in Human Arts and Letters. The proclamation was presented to her niece, Maria Consuelo Seaz Burgos.

Cities that have honored Julia de Burgos include:

• Carolina, Puerto Rico
  • Escuela Julia de Burgos
• Loiza, Puerto Rico
  • Paseo Julia de Burgos (Julia de Burgos Way)
• New York City, New York
  • Julia de Burgos Cultural Center
  • Julia de Burgos Way (corner of East 106th Street and Lexington Avenue)
  • Julia de Burgos Middle School (M.S. 99)
• Chicago, Illinois
  • Julia de Burgos Park
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Julia de Burgos Elementary School
  • Julia de Burgos Magnet Middle School
• San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Casa Protegida Julia de Burgos (domestic violence shelter)
• Toa Baja, Puerto Rico
  • Academia Julia de Burgos (Julia de Burgos Academy)
• Willimantic, Connecticut
  • Julia de Burgos Park

The renowned Puerto Rican sculptor Tomás Batista sculpted a bust of Julia in the Julia de Burgos Park in Carolina. Isabel Cuchí Coll published a book about Burgos titled Dos Petisas de América: Clara Lair y Julia de Burgos. Puerto Rican poet Giannina Braschi, who was born the year of Burgos' death, pays homage to her poetry and legend in a pivotal scene of the Spanglish novel Yo-Yo Boing!

A documentary about the life of Julia de Burgos was made in 2002 titled "Julia, Toda en mi..." (Julia, All in me...) directed and produced by Ivonne Belen. 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.

On September 14, 2010, in a ceremony held in San Juan, the United States Postal Service honored Burgos's 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.

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. de Burgos's name is on the sixth line of the third plate.