Las poetas colombianas rompen los moldes de una imagen preconcebida de poesía y se vuelven insumisas luchadoras contra los estereotipos, tocando los temas políticos, sociales, sensuales y hasta lo más íntimo de su ser y desafiando el dominio masculino en materia de poesía. En este artículo están 25 famosas poetisas de Colombia y sus obras más reconocidas.

Meira Delmar

Olga Isabel Chams (1922 - 2009).It was of Lebanese origin and was one of the most important poets of the twentieth century in Colombia.When he turns eleven, he begins to write poetry, among which the poem to the acacias in flower stands out.

His higher studies are carried out in the city of Rome. Posteriormente también toma clases de música y ejerce como profesora ​en ambas materias (música y literatura).Since 1989 he integrated the Colombian Academy of Language and other important organizations such as the Inter -American Commission of Women.

Write with the pseudonym Meira Delmar so as not to be recognized.His first publications are known from 1937: promise, you believe me with stone, chain and the rain gift.In 1942 Alba of oblivion published, later recognized as one of the best according to the magazine Semana (in 1999).Most outstanding works: Truth of sleep, alba of oblivion, site of love, reunion, secret island, memorious lute, host without shadow, someone passes, the wind passes: poetic anthology, trip to yesterday.

The wind passes: poetic anthology, 1942-1998

Among the works of current Colombian poets this work is a proposal to hope and love.Its author, Meira Delmar, gives her readers a song to trust, love and human ability to do good.His themes deal with nature, cosmos, the sacred, personal and familiar.

María Vieira White (Maruja Vieira)

María Vieira White was born in Manizales, 1922.It is one of the most recognized Colombian poets for their struggle and denunciation and one of the few women who managed to overcome gender discrimination of the time and make their way to the professional and literary world.He is a poet, journalist, essayist, professor and public relations.

He makes his first publications from 1949: Rain bell tower, poetry, January's poems, words of absence, time to live, my own words, minimum key, everything that was mine, shadow of love, all love,Popayán, the names of the absence, city back.

His life was marked by the bloody events of April 9, when the people of Colombia revolted massively by the cruel murder of its leader and defender Jorge Eliécer Gaitán.According to Maria herself, Venezuela welcomed her with love.In that country he had the privilege of knowing, working and strengthening ties of deep friendship with prominent intellectuals of that and other countries: Miguel Otero Silva, Alejo Carpentier, Arturo Uslar Pietri, Román Chalbaud (filmmaker) and Alberto de Paz (television).

Maruja Vieira was the pseudonym that poet Pablo Neruda gave him.It is one of Colombia's famous poets.It was a tireless and constant fighter of the rights of women and the first Colombian women occupying a public office.She was a formator of young literary talents, especially supporting female talent.

She served as a writer in the newspaper El Espectador and collaborator in El Heraldo, El Universal and El Nacional de Caracas.In Cali's country he was columnist.Editor of several magazines, founder and partner of the Circle of Journalists of Bogotá, main journalists' guild.He maintained for more than twenty years cultural programs in various broadcasters in Colombia.

Oretta Lozano

Oretta Lozano (Cali, 1956), is part of the new generation of poetizas of Colombia.His style (like other contemporary Colombian poets) shows a marked trend towards erotic and sensual issues.She has worked as director of the Centennial Library of Cali.

Among his best known publications are: Poetry for lovers, secret fire, memory of mirrors, drunk water and the expected vampire.His texts have been translated into French, English and Portuguese.He has participated in various poetry festivals in the United States, France and Colombia.In 1986 he won the National Poetry Prize Cote Lamus.In 1994 he was the winner of the Best Erotic Poem Award.

Letany of silence

In this book of poetry the author reaches expressive fullness, with her personal style and a new ingredient of glare before the feat of living.Editorial Pygmalion (Spain) published it.

Clara Schoenborn

Clara Schoenborn was born in 1957, in Cali.She is graduated in economics and has a diploma in management.He is a workshop and poet.It has colombo-German nationality.His best known works are: searches and encounters, holes in the light and offices in the key of Athena.

He has been invited on several occasions to the Poetry Festival of Bogotá and Cali.In 2009, IV Public Library Network Contest was a finalist.In 2014 he attended the country in the clouds and in 2016 attended the Poetry Festival of Havana as a guest.

Andrea Cote Botero

Andrea Cote Botero is a Colombian writer and poet (Santander, 1981).He spent his childhood in the city where he was born.Then he moved to Bogotá to study literature and later a doctorate at University of Pennsylvania.Piedad Bonnettt, a Colombian poet, said that Andrea Cote is one of the most promising and interesting young voices in the country.

Some publications: Calcinated Puerto, the White Essay Varelala Writing of loneliness, the biography of Tina Modotti, to the things that I hated, photographer to the naked, the ruin that I name and in the prairies of the world of the world.Puerto Calcinado was translated into several languages: Catalan, Arabic, English, French, Italian, Macedonio ... in Italy he wins the prize as the best poetry book in 2010.​

Shadow birds

This anthology is made up of talented Colombian poets that provide the reader with the possibility of enjoying the best poetry in Colombia.

Luz Mary Giraldo

Luz Mary Giraldo is a writer, essayist, poet, professor of literature and literary criticism author of several anthologies.He was born in Ibagué in 1950.She has a degree in Philosophy.His texts are collected in various anthologies in Colombia and other countries.Like other works by famous Colombian poets, their publications have also been translated into French, English and Italian.He has been a speaker and literary critic in several foreign and national events.

New Colombian story 1975-1995

In this book of recognized Colombian poets, the differences that exist between the different Colombian contemporary storytellers and poets are revealed.Also his common concerns such as: everyday life, humor, urban and language precision.The diversity of styles, themes and poems about short of Colombia, make this book very special and enjoyable.

María Mercedes Carranza

María Mercedes Carranza (1945-2003) was a journalist and poet born in Bogotá.She was the daughter of a renowned poet;Eduardo Carranza, Colombian writer of great prestige.He spends his childhood between Madrid and Paris, under the influence of his aunt Grandma Elisa Mújica (also a Colombian poet).In 1958 he returned to Colombia where he finishes his secondary studies and subsequently healed Philosophy and Letters (in Madrid first and then in Colombia).

From a young age it was linked to cultural journalism.With 20 years he collaborated with several magazines and made literary criticisms, he was also in charge of avant -garde, a literary page that directed.He also devoted himself to the dissemination of young talent through various anthologies and the house of Poetry Silva, a foundation that he directed until he died.Some of his outstanding Colombian poems are: poem of heartbreak, there are plenty of words, curse, homeland and I'm afraid.

He was also related to Colombia's political situation due to his brother's kidnapping by the FARC guerrilla group.In 1991, the Committee for the National Constituent Assembly that gave a new Constitution to Colombia in 1991, its participation was for the ADM-19 bench.

María Mercedes Carranza, full poetry

With this book, readers can enjoy the complete work of María Mercedes Carranza, from sheaths, the first poems, to his latest book entitled True pleasures.In his writings his rebel and human voice with which he writes about war in his country is reflected.Also your issues of loneliness, heartbreak, love and death.

Elcina Valencia Córdoba

María Elcina Valencia Córdoba (Cauca; 1963)​ es Licenciada en Educación, poeta y cantautora afrocolombiana.He started composing songs being very young.Write your first poem at age 17.In 1989 he graduated from Education.In 1997 of Master in Education.

During the year 2000 he obtains the title of Pedagogy of Folklore.She is also a diploma in computer science, senior management and educational quality, in addition to her musical training (guitar, solfeo ...).His work is mainly developed in song, laopoesy and the direction of dance and music to different artistic groups. Su primer libro se titula Todos somos culpables (1992​).Other books are: palm trees, autonomy routes, identity paths, passion, analogies and desires ...

The theme of his works are love, traditions, family and constant effort to rescue traditions and Afro -descendant cultural identity.She has been coordinator of the Agolombianity Committee of Buenaventura, trench from which she has organized forums, conferences, concerts and a whole cultural work to recognize and make Afro -Colombian visible.

For all silences

It is a book where a group of Colombian poets testify to the experiences that inspire them, in order to tell their own and others' stories, and their way of perceiving life.

Olga Elena Mattei

This poet was born in Puerto Rico, but has its origins in Medellín and is considered a Colombian poet.From a young age he shows his inclination for writing and literature.It is also dedicated to ballet and is a model by profession.He has dedicated himself to the conduct of programs, such as cultural criticism, organization of exhibitions, etc..

It is defined above all as a poet with theme about art, archeology and astronomy.His poem cosmoogonía made in multimedia format has been presented throughout America.It has 23 published books, Colombian short poems and other poems.Has been awarded 43 national and international awards.His main works are: the bourgeois lady, cactus, another reality, if you saw me like this.

Carmiña Navia Velasco

Born in Cauca in 1948, she is a Colombian feminist poet and writer.From his secondary education he leaned for literature.Later studies lyrics at the University of Valle.Subsequently he makes a mastery in linguistics and a diploma in Madrid of Language and Literature in 1978.She is the promoter of female readings, feminist writer and cultural manager.

He has collaborated in different Ecology and Literature magazines, both national and international.In parallel to his studies and work of theology and gender, he has developed a poetic work that is very recognized within Colombian female literature.Some of his works are: The Mysterious Fulgor (2003), Walking (1980), File Paths (2004), the fog walks through the city and oracle, a poem with which he was a finalist in the year 2000 in the International Poetry Contest of PoetryMysticism.

Urban runners

In urban corridors I know is a witness to the diversity of the city, in a story that dreams, remembers, imagines and lives, the "Cali of my entrails" and also other cities.

Amparo Osorio

Amparo Osorio (Bogotá, 1951) is an essayist, poet, Colombian journalist and narrator.He has published the books: Hurricanes of Dreams, Territory of Masks, Drunk Gota, Ash Migration, Essential Anthology, Omar Rayo Illuminated Geometry, The Anthology Prophetic Station, Absolute Memory, among others.

She has worked as an editor in the common magazine presence and was co-founder of the virtual weekly con-fabulation, of which she has also been a director.Like the works of other Colombian women and other recognized poets, several of their publications have been translated into other languages: English, Arabic, French, Hungarian, Russian ...

During his participation in the plural of Mexico in 1989 he won the first mention.He has represented Colombia several times in various international meetings at: Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the United States.

The inner fall

With this book Colombian poet and editor Amparo Osorio offers readers a sample of her poems.With the inner fall, the author shows that his hand or voice does not tremble, according to the Peruvian writer Jorge Nájar in his comments.

Eugenia Sánchez Nieto

Eugenia Sánchez (Bogotá 1953).In 1980 he obtained the title in Philosophy at the National University.In 1993 he specialized in regional development and development planning at the University of Los Andes.

He has won several awards and recognitions for his excellent creative work.In 1984 he obtained the National Prize for Poetry Horm Editors.In 1989 he obtained second place in the National Poetry Contest Luis Carlos López.He is also a finalist in the Latin American writers "Nicolas Guillén" (Electronic Book), 2003.Some of his published books are: that the time that purses us, the notebooks of the invisible, with the venia of the heliotropes and visible gestures come to us..

Of the upset love

This poetry book is a work by Eugenia Sánchez Nieto where he writes of the fundamental issues with his peculiar and unmistakable style.A pleasant and deep book.

Piedad Bonnett

Piedad Bonnettt (Antioquia, 1951) is a literary criticism, poet, novelist, poet and Colombian playwright.She is a graduate of the University of Los Andes where she obtained the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy and Letters.She also worked as a teacher at the same institution.His work reveals the influence of the violent and conflictive reality that he had to live.

His first circle and ash book receives honor mention in the Hispano -American Poetry Contest Octavio Paz.With the thread of the days he won the National Poetry Prize granted to him the Colombian Institute of Culture in 1994.With non -requested explanations in 2011 he wins the American Casa de Poetía 2011 Award 2011.She was also the winner of the Poetry Poetry Award of the Latin world in 2012, due to her contributions to the Castilian language.In 2017 he obtained the Generation of the 27th for the inhabitants.

Various essays and stories have been published abroad and in Colombia.He has also represented his country in various poetry meetings and several his essays have been published in Colombia and foreign newspapers and newspapers.In 2008, during the Book Fair in Bogotá, it was the honored poet.

Poetry gathered

It is a work done by one of the deepest voices of Colombian poetry.In this compilation the spirit of Piedad Bonnettt speaks.It is a volume where all his poetic work is gathered, from 1989 to the most recent.

Mery Yolanda Sánchez

He was born in Tolima, in 1956.She is a writer of stories and poems, in addition to book reviews and literary comments.Colombian poetry for children is a training work that also performs.Some publications are:

The city that dwells me, God is left over, hinder and ritual for the nights.Many of his works have appeared in various magazines and anthologies in Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil.

His work has also been to train youth, directing poetry workshops for young people and children.His poem to Colombia for children is a recognized work by Mery Yolanda Sánchez.

He has also worked in prison centers and designed a pilot project of theater, dance and literature for the Bogotá Human Rights Committee.She is director of Alartes, where mass cultural events are held.

The shortcut

The shortcut is a brutal and intimate book, full of realities, complaints and testimonies.A novel that exposes a transcendent truth and that perhaps serves as a warning.

Marisol Bohórquez Godoy

He was born in Santa María, 1982.It is graduated in industrial engineering, poet, literary translator and painter.Some of his poems: the loneliness of the mirrors, efforto farfalla-effect butterfly, antiparticles-antiparticelle and the form of vacuum.He has also translated many contemporary Italian authors and was winning in 2002 of the Fiori Di Luce contest, in the category of best foreign poetry.

He has participated in several international poetry festivals: Medellín in 2016 and 2018, Buenos Aires in 2016, Macedonia in 2018, Colombia2019 and in Europe (Italy 2019).It is also graduated in Spanish and Spanish -American literature at the University of Barcelona.Part of his work in collaborating with prestigious poetry magazines to spread the voice of contemporary poets.

The loneliness of mirrors

It is a work where Marisol Bohórquez Godoy speaks to us through verses of the inexplicable and intricate paths of love, as well as other intimate themes, in his unique style of doing poetry.

Catalina González Restrepo

She was born in Medellín (1976), she has a degree in Literature and Spanish from the University of Antioquia.He also has a literature magistracy at the Javeriana University, Bogotá.It exercises work in commercial, academic, institutional and independent sectors in Bogotá.

Some of its publications are: eagerness to escape, wishes for walkers, six songs (salt water) and other poems, the last battle and a word shines in the middle of the night.

The last battle

Catalina González Restrepo has published this poems with his works that have appeared in foreign, national and diverse anthologies in various magazines.

Light Helena Cordero

He was born in Bucaramanga, Santander.His work takes between his activity as a psychologist and his literary work.His first works were published in the Sunday avant -garde, in the newspaper Vanguardia Liberal (literary supplement).Then in the magazine Combat and Magazín Sunday of El Espectador.

From a young age he showed his inclination for the world of literature.He participated in literary circles in the eighties.He was also part of the María Mercedes Carranza workshops.He promotes and releases his poetry through his website "poetry reveals and rebels", since he showed some resistance to participating in literary competitions and competitions.According to the writer, poetry goes beyond creative expression and is always present, in silence, when nothing happens.His work includes stories, chronicles and literary essay.

Poéticas del desarraigo: Ciudad y Violencia en las obras de María Mercedes Carranza, Mery Yolanda Sánchez, Light Helena Cordero y Andrea Cote

The book poems by Colombian authors contains the poetic work of four creators with their vision and expression about Colombian reality in relation to violence, rupture, violence places, etc..You can also find the short Colombian poem among its pages.

Lucia Estrada

He was born in Medellín (1980).He is a poet whose theme explores aspects of the mystery of being, sleep, night and writing as a destination.It was part of the Organizing Committee in 2003 and 2007 at the International Poetry Festival of Medellín.

He was also a member of the Committee in the Alhucema magazine of Granada in Spain. Sus obras se han traducido al alemán, inglés, francés​ e italiano.They have also been disseminated in various anthologies in Venezuela, Peru, Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Spain and Chile.Wrote the prologue of the well -known book The daughters of Juan Manuel Roca's Espino.

Some publications: liquid night, night fireworks, the night in the mirror, the eye of Circe, Angel Notebook, Katabasis.In 2005 he won the Poetry Award City of Medellín.Subsequently in 2009 and in 2017 the National Poetry Award of Bogotá.In 2009 she was nominated by UNESCO to the Young Poetry Award.

Katabasis

It is a book translated into languages such as German, French, English and Italian.The collection won the National Poetry Award in 2017 in the city of Bogotá.

Hannah Escobar

Hannah Dimelza Escobar Correa (Antioquia, 1985), is a pharmaceutical chemistry as well as a Colombian writer, writer, model and actress.It is the promoter of the insubstantialist movement of Colombia, a group of musicians, designers, illustrators and audiovisual creators who support that all creation part of aesthetics and form.He is a worthy representative of the poets of Colombia and especially of the Antioquia poets and his work.

Hannah Escobar's poetry touches occult and philosophical issues sometimes difficult to understand, which can sometimes be defined as an experiment.She was winner in 2014 of the National Poetry Award of the Literary Tertulia Gloria Luz Gutiérrez.Some of his works: from the propensity to forget all things, the consecrated poet, urobus: a palindromo and the same Sisyphus.

Ouróboros: a palindromo or the same Sisyphus

A book where the author reflects her style that distinguishes her work from the poems of Colombian poets, for the philosophical, occult and deep personal touch that characterizes her.

Lucrecia Panchano

Lucrecia Panchano (Cauca, 1940) is a Colombian poe.His beautiful work is a definition of what Colombian poetry is focused on cultural aspect.

At the age of thirteen she was appointed rural teacher in the community of Guapi and sent to Emberá to teach the children to read.In 1965 he began his literary activity and in 1970 he won first place in a contest on customs and culture of the Pacific region.Subsequently, his work continues by writing poems and chronicles in magazines and newspapers of Buenaventura and Cali.He also stands out in his poems in Colombia shorts for children and short paisas poems.

His first book is published in 2004 with the name of resonances of a Churo, with whom he won honorific mentions (in Cali) of the Municipal Comptroller and the University of Valley.He was invited to Spain to an event about the Afro -descendant population by President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

In 2007 he received the Merit Medal in Poetry Helcías Martán Góngora and the golden palm to the ancestral inheritance merit for his echoed work of my coastline.In 2010 he published in my ancestors, made for boys and girls, with rounds, stories and poems.Colombia's poem for children is one of his most recognized jobs.

Helena Ospina

Helena Ospina Garcés de Fonseca ​(Cali, 1944 – Costa Rica, 2017) fue poeta ycatedrática de literatura, fundadora junto a su esposo de la editorial Promesa.He has published in his long and fruitful career numerous articles written in the press and magazines, in addition to poetry and other publications.Some of his works are: the dialogue, in parentheses, the silences, open the doors, the song of the Songs, Ars Poetic, among others.She was awarded in the Joaquín Gutiérrez M literary contest.For his poem Cantata for the Arts.

Save, sail, my love!(Poetry book 47)

Helena Ospina poems are characterized by clarity, moderation, her love and hopeful message for men and women.Helena Ospina is one of the names of poets that inspires reconciliation with himself and with life.The poem for my Colombia shorts expresses love for your country.

Yirama Castaño Güiza

He was born in Socorro, Santander, however, arrived very small in Bogotá where he lived his childhood and youth.While studying high school he began writing poems and in 1990 he first published.Journalism was another of his passions and worked in several media (Archo Magazine, RCN Radio, Radio Sutatenza) as a political editor, editor and chronicler.He was a press head of the Ministry of Education in 2002.

His work has been developed between poetry and journalism.She is graduated in diplomacy, in international studies and has a master's degree in Political Science.Among his works are: Luna shipwreck, shadow garden, the dream of the other, apprentice memory and juggle in the abyss, among others.

Apprentice memory

This work is a poems by Yirama Castaño where the poet and journalist gives readers their recognized work, translated and published in numerous media in their country Colombia and others abroad.A sample of short poems for Colombia and Colombian contemporary poetry.

Eliana Flórez Pineda

Eliana Flórez Pineda (Florián Santander, 1975), is a writer dedicated to poetry.Her inclination for reading and writing is something that accompanies her since she was a child.He has participated in various events related to women: Ambassador of goodwill of the Movement Women Poets International (MPI) in the Dominican Republic, collaborator at the International Festival Grito de Mujer, an organization that promotes the tribute to women and non -violence, throughof arts and poetry.

She is a delegate of the Hispanomundial Union of Writers in Colombia, a member of the Venezuelan International Art Society (SVAI), is part of the NGOs of Peace.For his work of great experience and literary work he has obtained different recognition nationally and internationally.His work is characterized by his social commitment to women and justice.She is a radical defender of women's rights, human rights, against the violence of children and women in Colombia and in the world

Lauren Mendinueta

He was born in Barranquilla in 1977.He is a Colombian poet who deals through his work such as loneliness, death, pain, love and uncertainty.He has conducted conferences, essays and several workshops on Hispanic -American female poetry.His texts have been translated into various languages.

Some of his works are: first poems, letter from the village, city inventory, where the past, expanded autobiography, poetry itself, the suspended vocation, the altered and free reality in the cage, among others are chosen, among others.

The suspended vocation

This work highlights the intimate reflection and calm with which the poem of a Colombian author deals with a subject.In the verses his personal style is distinguished and the representation of a new contemporary poetry.

Lilian Pallares

He was born in Barranquilla in 1976.She has a degree in audiovisual production and journalism.She is a writer of stories, poetry, opinion columns and chronicles.

Her passion for Afro and folklore roots motivated her to create Afrolyics, a show that fuses percussion and poetry.He obtained the first prize in the unpublished poetry contest of the University of the North in 1999.Some of his publications: Sound City, mute voices, bird, vertigo.It was selected among the ten young writers in Latin America by About.com in New York, in 2011.

Sound City: Chronicles and street stories

It is the story of anonymous stories in its transit through the city.They are chronicles of experiences in the streets, in the corners, in the popular neighborhood, of the inhabitants of a city dreaming and living, wandering from one place to another.

Colombian poets, an example of fighting stereotypes, have reflected their history and that of their country in national and international literature.The contemporary Colombian poet.