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Poetry in Spanish

Poets of Spain

Federico Garcia Lorca

Lope de Vega

Gustavo Adolfo Bequer

Antonio Machado

Rosalía De Castro

Rafael Alberti

Juan Ramón Jiménez

Vicente Aleixandre

Luis de Góngora

The Best Spanish-Language Poets You Should ReadFrom Neruda to Borges, and from Lorca to Octavio Paz, discover the best Spanish-language poets of all time.

Poets of Mexico

Juana Inés de la Cruz

Octavio Paz

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1990The Nobel Prize in Literature 1990 was awarded to Octavio Paz "for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity"

Jaime Sabines

Xavier Villaurrutia

Rosario Castellanos

Efrain Huerta

Elsa Cross

10 Mexican poets everyone should read | El UniversalToday, we bring you a list of 10 Mexican poets you should include in your personal library

Poets of the Caribbean

José Martí

Cuban

Nicolas Guillen

Cuban

Blas Jiménez

Dominican Republic

Luis Pales Matos

Puerto Rico

Couldn't find any videos of Blas Jimenez, so here is a Dominican American poet Elizabeth Acevedo talking about being Afro-Latina. Being Black & Dominican was a common theme in Blas's poems as well.

Julia de Burgos

Excilia Saldaña

Cuban

Ruben Dario

Nicaraguan

Poets of Central America

Claudia Lars

El Salvador

Manlio Argueta

El Salvador

Juan Jose Canas

El Salvador

National Anthem

Eunice Odio

Costa Rica

Maya Chinchilla

Poets of South America

Gabriela Mistral

Alfonsina Storni

Argentina

Pablo Neruda

Chile

Delmira Augustini

Uruguay

Additional Resources

Poetry In TranslationA. S. Kline's open access poetry archive offering modern, high-quality translations of classic texts by famous poets, original poetry and critical works.

Los 30 mejores poemas en español - ZendaDespués de darle muchas vueltas me he atrevido con este desafío que me he impuesto: crear una lista con los 30 mejores poemas en español.

U.S. Latinx Voices in Poetry | Poetry FoundationExploring Latino/a American poetry and culture.

The Best Spanish-Language Poets You Should ReadFrom Neruda to Borges, and from Lorca to Octavio Paz, discover the best Spanish-language poets of all time.

Hispanic Heritage Month Poems

https://poets.org/hispanic-heritage-month

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