Poetry and Poetics

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April 1, 2009
Armando Orozco Tovar (1943)

A poet and painter born in Bogotá, Armando Orozco Tovar received a bachelors degree in journalism from the University of Havana, Cuba, where he worked at Radio Havana. Back in Colombia, he has been a university professor of humanities and worked as a journalist. He has also held poetry and short-story workshops and has been a judge for several poetry prizes. He has published five books of poems and held three exhibitions of his paintings, the first one in Havana. He has written many essays and feature articles, and is now writing his memoirs, entitled The Bad Memory of a Mythomaniac.



April 1, 2009
Eugenia Sánchez Nieto (1953)

Born in Bogotá, in a time of great civil unrest, Eugenia Sánchez Nieto (known by her pen-name “Yuyín”) witnessed the difficult years of social and political violence in Colombia in the last half of the twentieth century. From a young age, already a voracious reader, Eugenia Sánchez Nieto gained, in addition to her love of literature and the humanities in general, a great sensibility to the injustice and inequality in Colombia.



April 1, 2009
William Agudelo (1942)

A self-taught musician, sculptor and poet, William Agudelo has lived in Nicaragua since 1966, where he helped the poet Ernesto Cardenal in the founding of the community of Solentiname. In the 1980s he worked as a director of graphic arts in the Ministry of Culture of Nicaragua, and in the 1990s he was director of a cultural centre there. He has published a diary, translated into German and English, two books about the Nicaraguan Revolution, and many poems in reviews and magazines. He now devotes his life to writing poetry and to wood-carving and pyrography on leather.