José Tlatelpas

Who is José Tlatelpas?

Jose Tlatelpas is a Mexican poet, essayist, visual artist, journalist, publisher, writer and political activist for civil rights. He lives in Mexico city and Vancouver, Canada. He has been a director of several cultural and political magazines since 1972, such as Nueva Generación, Gaceta Politécnica de Literatura y Redacción, La Guirnalda Polar and Poder Popular.

Among other places, he gave workshops for the INBA in Mexico, the ENEP Acatlan University; abroad, he conducted workshops in CLAVES Latinoamericanas and the Circulo de Escritores Latinoamericanos in Vancouver, Canada, and other places.

In 1985, he was a coordinator of Maiz Rebelde, the Cultural Group of The Mexican Socialist Party, a party that evolved into the Partido de la Revolución Democrática or PRD. The Maiz Rebelde group was founded with the poet Mario Ramírez, muralist José Hernández Delgadillo, the poet Benito Balam and others. Among many other works, they published "Desde los Siglos del Maiz Rebelde", a poetry antology with an introduction by Horacio Caballero.