Jesús Cos Causse (Cuba, 1945–2007) wrote many prizewinning collections, such as Con el mismo violín (1970), El último trovador (1975), Las islas y las luciérnagas (1981), and Balada de un tambor y otros poemas (1987). An edition of his collected poems in Spanish, Jesús Cos Causse: Poesías Selectas, appeared in 2021 as part of the Serie Malunga, published by the Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana at the University of Pittsburgh. Cos Causse was active with a variety of cultural organizations, and at his city’s annual Caribbean Culture Festival, he led a regular poetry workshop dedicated to the Caribbean and the world.