Complex sentence: Victor Hernández Cruz is a Puerto Rican poet, who was born in 1949 in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, moved to New York in 1954, began writing at fifteen, and published his first collections of poetry in the late 1960s.
Split into simpler sentences: Victor Hernández Cruz (born in 1949 in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican poet. He began writing at fifteen, and published his first collections of poetry in the late 1960s.