What is Puerto Rican poetry?
'''Puerto Rican poetry''' refers to [[Poetry|poems]] written by [[Puerto Rican]] [[Writer|writers]]. Puerto Ricans are [[Citizenship in the United States|American citizens]].<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Dropp|first1=Kyle|last2=Nyhan|first2=Brendan|date=2017-09-26|title=Nearly Half of Americans Don't Know Puerto Ricans Are Fellow Citizens|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/upshot/nearly-half-of-americans-dont-know-people-in-puerto-ricoans-are-fellow-citizens.html|access-date=2020-11-12|issn=0362-4331|quote=It has been 101 years since the citizens of Puerto Rico were collectively naturalized as U.S. citizens (1917).}}</ref> Because of this, Puerto Rican poetry is a part of [[American poetry]]. Puerto Rican poetry is also considered part of [[Caribbean poetry]] and [[Latin American poetry]]. This is because the [[island]] is in the Caribbean. It is also because of the [[Culture|cultural]] and [[Linguistics|linguistic]] connection to the region.<ref>{{Cite web|title=puerto rico is part of Latin America - Google Search|url=https://www.google.com/search?q=puerto+rico+is+part+of+Latin+America|access-date=2020-11-12|website=www.google.com}}</ref> Puerto Rican poetry is often written in [[Spanish language|Spanish]]. However, Puerto Rican poets often use both [[English language|English]] and Spanish in the same poem.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rmrpDAAAQBAJ&dq=caribbean+poetry+giannina+braschi&pg=PA199|title=Spanish-English Codeswitching in the Caribbean and the US|last1=Tamargo|first1=Rosa E. Guzzardo|last2=Mazak|first2=Catherine M.|last3=Couto|first3=M. Carmen Parafita|date=2016-09-07|publisher=John Benjamins Publishing Company|isbn=978-90-272-6667-5|language=en}}</ref> Sometimes, poets mix Spanish and English words into [[Spanglish (language)|Spanglish]] expressions.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Torres|first=L.|date=2007-03-01|title=In the Contact Zone: Code-switching Strategies by Latinola Writers|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/32.1.75|journal=MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Lit