He won awards for his poetry, but also spent time as a political prisoner for criticizing the Cuban President.

He was born in a large house on Calzada de Tirry street, at the mouth of the bay, in Matanzas, Cuba.

Other members of the Minoristas included; Alejo Carpentier, Juan Marinello, Alberto Lamar, José Zacarías Tallet and Emilio Roig de Leuchsenring.

[3] Another prominent member of the Minoristas was Conrado Walter Massaguer, the owner of the magazines Social and Carteles.

[6] With the success of the Cuban Revolution of 1933, Machado was overthrown and Acosta was no longer classified as an enemy of the state.

[1][2] In 1913, 1914 and 1915, Acosta obtained "Natural Flowers" in the floral games held in Santiago de Cuba and Havana.

Together with Regino Boti and José Manuel Poveda he is one of the representatives of the lyrical renaissance that took place in Cuba before the 1920's.

He wrote regularly for Cuban publications including; Some of his popular poems like "Las carretas en la noche" ("Carts in the Night") and "Mediodia en el Campo" ("Midday in the Country") appeared in La Zafra.

[3] In 1961, only a year after Fidel Castro took power, Acosta was replaced as the National Poet by Nicolás Guillén.

[6] Guillén had once been enraptured by Acosta's poems, and the two men had at one time hosted poetry competitions together.

Acosta only published a single work of poetry after the Cuban Revolution, Caminos de hierro (Roads of Iron), in 1963.

From what my father told me many years later, facts belonging to the family and personal novel of the poet, I really come to doubt it.