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Medardo Ángel Silva
Medardo Ángel Silva (1898–1919) was an Ecuadorian modernist poet, novelist, and chronicler from Guayaquil, the last member of the Generación Decapitada, whose poem "El alma en los labios" became a beloved pasillo.
Menotti Del Picchia
Menotti Del Picchia (Paulo Menotti del Picchia, 1892–1988) was a Brazilian poet and co-organizer of the 1922 Semana de Arte Moderna, best known for his long poem Juca Mulato.
Merle Collins
Merle Collins, born in 1950, is a Grenadian poet, novelist, and academic whose work centers on Grenada and the 1979–1983 Grenada Revolution; her books include the novel Angel (1987).
Miguel Oscar Menassa
Miguel Oscar Menassa (1940–2024) was an Argentine poet, psychoanalyst, novelist, and painter who founded Grupo Cero, joining poetry and psychoanalysis, and lived in Spain from the mid-1970s.
Murilo Mendes
Murilo Mendes (Murilo Monteiro Mendes, 1901–1975) was a Brazilian poet and art critic who united surrealism and Catholicism within Brazilian Modernism, living his last years in Rome.
Nancy Morejón
Nancy Morejón (Nancy Morejón Hernández) is a Cuban poet born in Havana in 1944, known for her poetry on Afro-Cuban identity and for winning Cuba's National Prize for Literature in 2001.
Natalia Toledo
Natalia Toledo, also known as Natalia Toledo Paz, is a Mexican poet and storyteller born in Juchitán, Oaxaca, in 1967, who writes bilingually in Isthmus Zapotec and Spanish.
Nicolás Guillén
Nicolás Guillén (1902–1989) was a Cuban poet and journalist regarded as the national poet of Cuba, a central figure of Afro-Cuban poetry whose work fused son rhythms with social protest.
Olavo Bilac
Olavo Bilac (1865–1918) was a Brazilian Parnassian poet, journalist, and school inspector who founded the Academia Brasileira de Letras and wrote the Hino à Bandeira lyrics.
Olegário Mariano
Olegário Mariano (1889–1958) was a Brazilian poet, politician, and diplomat elected to the Academia Brasileira de Letras and named Prince of Brazilian Poets in 1938.
Olegario Víctor Andrade
Olegario Víctor Andrade (1839–1882) was an Argentine Romantic poet and journalist, regarded as the national poet of Argentina, known for El nido de cóndores and Atlántida.
Olga Orozco
Olga Orozco, full name Olga Nilda Gugliotta Orozco (1920–1999), was an Argentine poet and journalist of the Generación del 40, known for dreamlike, mystical poetry and major prizes including the Juan Rulfo Prize.
Oswald de Andrade
Oswald de Andrade (José Oswald de Sousa de Andrade, 1890–1954) was a Brazilian poet, novelist, and essayist who led Brazilian modernism and wrote the 1928 Manifesto Antropófago.
Otto René Castillo
Otto René Castillo was a Guatemalan poet and guerrilla fighter, author of the revolutionary anthem "Vámonos patria a caminar," tortured and killed by the army in 1967.
Pablo Antonio Cuadra
Pablo Antonio Cuadra Cardenal (1912–2002), known as PAC, was a Nicaraguan poet and essayist who co-founded the vanguardia movement, wrote about Nicaraguan identity, and led the Nicaraguan Academy of Letters.
Paulo Henriques Britto
Paulo Henriques Britto is a Brazilian poet, short-story writer, essayist, and translator of about 120 books from English; born in Rio de Janeiro in 1951, he teaches at PUC-Rio.
Paulo Leminski
Paulo Leminski (1944–1989) was a Brazilian poet, translator, and critic from Curitiba, Paraná, whose work joined the rigor of concrete poetry with popular language and haiku.
Paulo Mendes Campos
Paulo Mendes Campos (1922–1991) was a Brazilian poet, chronicler, and translator from Minas Gerais whose short newspaper pieces made him one of Brazil's recognized masters of the crônica.
Pedro de Oña
Pedro de Oña (1570–c. 1643) was a Chilean-born colonial poet, regarded as the first poet born on Chilean soil, best known for the epic poem Arauco domado, printed in Lima in 1596.
Pedro Mir
Pedro Mir (Pedro Julio Mir Valentín, 1913–2000) was a Dominican poet known for the poem Hay un país en el mundo, declared Poeta Nacional in 1984.
Piedad Bonnett
Piedad Bonnett (Piedad Bonnet Vélez) is a Colombian poet, novelist, playwright, and critic born in 1951 in Amalfi, Antioquia, who won the 2024 Reina Sofía Prize for Ibero-American Poetry.
Porfirio Barba-Jacob
Porfirio Barba-Jacob was the pen name of Miguel Ángel Osorio Benítez (1883–1942), a Colombian poet of melancholy lyric meditations on death, much honored after his death.
Rafael Arévalo Martínez
Rafael Arévalo Martínez (1884–1975) was a Guatemalan poet, novelist, and diplomat of the Generación de 1910, known for the story "El hombre que parecía un caballo".
Rafael Cadenas
Rafael Cadenas, born in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, in 1930, is a Venezuelan poet and essayist known for Los cuadernos del destierro and winner of the 2022 Premio Cervantes.
Rafael María de Mendive
Rafael María de Mendive y Daumy (1821–1886) was a Cuban Romantic poet, lawyer, and schoolmaster, remembered as the teacher and second father of independence leader José Martí.
Raimundo Correia
Raimundo Correia (1859–1911) was a Brazilian Parnassian poet, judge, and diplomat, a founder of the Academia Brasileira de Letras and of the Trindade Parnasiana with Olavo Bilac.
Ramón López Velarde
Ramón López Velarde (1888–1921) was a Mexican poet from Jerez, Zacatecas, known as "El Poeta Nacional" for La sangre devota, Zozobra, and "La suave Patria."
Raúl Gómez Jattin
Raúl Gómez Jattin (1945–1997) was a Colombian poet from Cartagena who grew up in the Sinú valley, wrote the erotic Tríptico cereteano, and became a celebrated "poeta maldito" figure.
Raúl González Tuñón
Raúl González Tuñón was an Argentine poet and journalist born in Buenos Aires in 1905, a founder of urban poetry in Spanish and precursor of social poetry in Argentina.
Raúl Zurita
Raúl Zurita Canessa, born 1950 in Santiago, Chile, is a celebrated Chilean poet and CADA co-founder whose work registers the violence of the Pinochet dictatorship.