José Carlos Becerra (21 May 1936 – 27 May 1970) was a Mexican poet from Villahermosa, Tabasco. He was one of only two people from Tabasco to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship. While traveling in Europe, he was killed in a car accident near Brindisi, Italy, age 34.^[1]

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