TWA Poet: César Vallejo

1892 - 1938

It’s the birthday of poet César Vallejo, born in Santiago de Chuco, Peru (1892). As a young man, he worked as a miner and then as a cashier at a sugar plantation that employed slave laborers. He was horrified by the exploitation of poor workers, and became a socialist.

In 1920, he was at a hometown festival that deteriorated into lootings and arson. He w…