Luis Alberto Ambroggio

Luis Alberto Ambroggio, an internationally known Hispanic-American poet born in Argentina, has resided in the Washington, DC area since 1967. He is the author of eleven collections of poetry published in Argentina, Costa Rica, Spain, and the United States, and is a member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language and of International PEN. In 2004, he won the Spanish TV Award for poems on solitude. In 2008, the North American Academy of the Spanish Language published a book on...See more

Luis Alberto Ambroggio, an internationally known Hispanic-American poet born in Argentina, has resided in the Washington, DC area since 1967. He is the author of eleven collections of poetry published in Argentina, Costa Rica, Spain, and the United States, and is a member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language and of International PEN. In 2004, he won the Spanish TV Award for poems on solitude. In 2008, the North American Academy of the Spanish Language published a book on Ambroggio's poetry, El Cuerpo y la Letra. His poetry and essays have appeared in the U.S. and abroad in newspapers, magazines (including Passport, Scholastic, International Poetry Review, and Hispanic Culture Review), poetry anthologies (DC Poets Against the War, Cool Salsa), and textbooks (Paisajes, Bridges to Literature, Voices: Breaking Down Barriers). His poetry has been recorded in the Archives of Hispanic Literature of the Library of Congress and has been translated into several languages. See less