Social poetry is poetry which performs a social function or contains a level of social commentary. The term seems to have first appeared as a translation from the original Spanish Poesia Socíal, used to describe the post-Spanish-civil-war poetry movement of the 1950s and 60s[1] (including poets such as Blas de Otero). Later, José Eduardo Limón, for example, has used it to describe Mexican-American Chicano poetry in Texas during the same period.[2] Elsewhere, others have used the term to describe English-language poets such as W.H. Auden[3] and George Bernard Shaw.[4] Boston University has recently offered courses in “the social poetry of Central America.”[5]