Selected Poems and Literary Works
Here are poems and literature excerpts for use in the classroom by Central American authors of note. Many are members of the Committed Generation.
El Salvador
Guatemala
- A Dog's Luck by Otto Rene Castillo (English)
- We Indians Have No Childhood by Rigoberta Menchú (English)
- Even Beneath This Bitterness by Otto Rene Castillo (English)
HONDURAS
- Combat by Clementina Suarez (English)
- Freehand Sketch by Roberto Sosa (English)
NICARAGUA
- A Flower by Carlos Jose Guadamuz (English)
- From "Nicaraguan Canto" by Ernesto Cardenal (English)
- America en el idioma de la memoria by Gioconda Belli (Spanish)
- Obligations of the Poet by Gioconda Belli (English)
- To Columbus by Rubén Darío (English and Spanish)
NICARAGUA / EL SALVADOR
- Little Cambray Tamales by Claribel Alegría (English and Spanish)
- Ars Poetica by Claribel Alegría (English)