LUIS ALBERTO AMBROGGIO
Is an internationally known Hispanic American poet, born in Argentina, who resides in the Washington Metropolitan area since 1967. Selected in 2006 as one of the favorite poets by the Teachers Association and winner of the 2004 Spanish TV Award for poems on Solitute, amongst other distinctions, Ambroggio’s latest books of poetry, Laberintos de Humo/Laberynths of smoke (Tierra Firme, Buenos Aires, 2005) and El testigo se desnuda/The witness bares his soul (Puerta de Alcalá, 2002) have been widely praised in reviews in Europe, U.S. (Diario de las Americas) and Latin America. He is the author of eleven collections of poetry published in Spain, Argentina and the United States of America. Ambroggio was honored with the appointment as Member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language which published in 2008 a book on his poetry entitled "El cuerpo y la letra" (The body and the letter") . His texts (poetry and essays) have appeared in newspapers here and abroad, magazines (Passport.University of Arkansas, Scholastic, International Poetry Review, Hispanic Culture Review and others) and poetic anthologies in Latin America, Europe and the U.S., among them The New Hispanic American Poetry, DC Poets Against the War, Red Hot Salsa, Tigertail, Poetic Voices Without Boundaries and Cool Salsa , a collection described by Publishers Weekly as hot as jalapeños and as cool as jazz, that serves up “inglés con Chili” and Spanish that “you feel in the blood of your soul” . "Difficult Beauty" (published by Cross-Cultural Communications, NY, 2009) is a bilingual anthology of selected poems 1978-2006. His poetry, translated into several languages, has been included in textbooks (Pasajes, Bridges to Literature,Voices: Breaking down barriers), and recorded in the Archives of Hispanic Literature of the U.S. Library of the Congress.
