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Latin American poets and poems

Latin American poetry includes many nations, languages, movements, and Indigenous and diasporic traditions; it is not one literary school.

This page joins the verified Brazilian and Chilean records currently available while keeping each poet’s country and source visible.

2 poets17 poemsPublic-domain source editions

Poets in this collection

  1. Gabriela MistralLatin American modernism · 5 poems
  2. Machado de AssisBrazilian Romanticism · 12 poems

Selected poems

17 starting points, with featured poems first.

  1. BaladaGabriela Mistral · 20 lines
  2. El ruegoGabriela Mistral · 36 lines
  3. ElegiaMachado de Assis · 94 lines
  4. Epitaphio Do MexicoMachado de Assis · 24 lines
  5. ErroMachado de Assis · 31 lines
  6. La maestra ruralGabriela Mistral · 33 lines
  7. Musa ConsolatrixMachado de Assis · 27 lines
  8. PiececitosGabriela Mistral · 12 lines
  9. PoloniaMachado de Assis · 101 lines
  10. Quinze AnnosMachado de Assis · 74 lines
  11. StellaMachado de Assis · 40 lines
  12. VergüenzaGabriela Mistral · 15 lines
  13. VisioMachado de Assis · 63 lines
  14. Horas VivasMachado de Assis · 40 lines
  15. SinháMachado de Assis · 22 lines
  16. Ultima FolhaMachado de Assis · 52 lines
  17. Versos a CorinnaMachado de Assis · 395 lines