!... Great river. Great flood of tears...save those greater that come from the eyes of my soul for my enslaved people" Julia de Burgos, "
El Rio Grande de Loiza"]]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 Letters and Arts. The proclamation was presented to her niece, Maria Consuelo Seaz Burgos.
Cities that have honored Julia de Burgos include:
- Carolina, Puerto Rico
- 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)
- 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
The renowned Puerto Rican sculptor Tomás Batista sculpted a bust of Julia which is in the Julia de Burgos Park in Carolina. Puerto Rican poet Giannina Braschi who was born the year of Julia's 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.
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.