Luis Alberto Ambroggio

• Knocking on the Door of the White House: Latina and Latino Poets in Washington, D.C., Luis Alberto Ambroggio, Carlos Parada and José Ballesteros, Zozobra Publishing, 2017.

• "Ruben Dario and Walt Whitman". New York: North-American Academy of the Spanish Language, 2017.

• Todos somos Whitman/We are all Whitman. Arte Público Press, Univ. Of Houson, 2016.

• Tribute to the Road/Homenaje al Camino (Bilingual version). México-Barcelona, Vaso Roto Ed.: 2015.

• Estados Unidos Hispano (Hispanic United States). Nueva York, Colección Dorada, Long Island al Día Ed.: 2015.

• Antología Poética de Luis Alberto Ambroggio (Poetic Anthology of Luis Alberto Ambroggio) Madrid, Lord Byron Ed.: 2015.

• "Anti-olvido", Homenaje a Nicanor Parra, en Decenio, Revista Centroamericana de Cultura, No. 15, Diciembre 2015, 11-13.

• "Bilingüismo e identidad." (Bilingualism and Identity). Key note speech read at Toronto's City Hall, Canadá: https://web.archive.org/web/20150928175532/http://revistadebate.ca/portal/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=566

• Todos somos Whitman. España-México, Vaso Roto Ed.:2014.

• Labios de Arena (Lips of sand). Embajada de los Estados Unidos de América Managua, Nicaragua: 2014.

• "Spanish is my land." La Tolteca (Otoño 2014): 54-55 https://issuu.com/latolteca/docs/latolteca_fall_2014-70pgs-final3

• Cuentos de viaje para siete cuerdas y otras metafísicas (Travel stories for seven strings and other metaphysics). Indianapolis: Palibrio Ed.: 2013.

• Homenaje al camino (Tribute to the Road). Córdoba: Alción Editora, 2012.

• Antología. Festival Latinoamericano de Poesía. Ciudad de Nueva York 2012. Carlos Aguasaco, Luis Alberto Ambroggio, Karla Coreas, eds. Nueva York: Urpi Editores, 2012.

• Memoria poética hispana de EE.UU.: historia y contexto teórico. (U.S. Hispanic Poetic Memory: History and Theoretical Context), New York: North-American Academy of the Spanish Language, 2012.

• Tezanos-Pinto, Rosa, ed. El exilio y la palabra. La trashumancia de un escritor argentino-estadounidense (Exile and the Word. Trashumance of an Argentine-U.S. Writer). Buenos Aires: Editorial Vinciguerra, 2012.

• Arqueología del viento / The Wind's Archeology. Barcelona-Mexico: El Vaso roto Ediciones Broken, 2011. (Winner of the 2013 International Latino Best Book Award for its bilingual version).

• De azul a rojo (From Blue to Red). Nicaraguan Poetic Voices of the XXI century. Managua: Embassy of the United States and Nicaraguan Writers Center, 2011.

• "La filosofía de la memoria poética" ("The Philosophy of Poetic Memory.") Alba de America 31.59 (2011): 274-86.

• "Gabriela Mistral, La extranjera: complejidad poética de su desarraigo y pertenencia" ("Gabriela Mistral, the Foreigner: Poetic Complexity of Her Rootlessness and Belonging") in Gabriela Mistral y los Estados Unidos (Gabriela Mistral and the United States), Gerardo Piña-Rosales et al., Eds. New York: North-American Academy of the Spanish Language, 2011.

• "Representantes de los movimientos literarios: en la poesía escrita en español en los Estados Unidos: Modernismo, Pre/Post/Neo y otros ismos." ("Representatives of Literary Movements: The Poetry Written in Spanish in the United States: Modernism, Pre/Post/Neo and Other Isms.") Alba de América 30.57-58 (2011): 214-27.

• Corda, Adriana. "Poética del retorno en 'Azahares de la Memoria' de Luis Alberto Ambroggio." ("Poetics of Return in 'Azahares de la Memoria' by Luis Alberto Ambroggio.") XLVII Congress Hispanists Canadian Association of Hispanists, ACH-CAH. University of New Brunswick and Saint Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, May 2011.

• Palacios, Conny. "Arte poética y palabra en Los Habitantes del Poeta de Luis Alberto Ambroggio. " ("The Word and Poetic Art in Luis Alberto Ambroggio's "The Inhabitants of the Poet"). XLVII Canadian Association Congress Hispanists ACH-CAH, University of New Brunswick and Saint Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, May 2011.

• Al pie de la Casa Blanca (At the Footsteps of the White House). Hispanic Poets from Washington, DC., Luis Alberto Ambroggio and Carlos Parada Ayala, eds. New York: North-American Academy of the Spanish Language, 2010.

• "Dos poemas migrantes: "La lengua materna" de Eduardo Espina y "Otredad" de Luis Alberto Ambroggio." ("Two Migrant Poems:" "Mother Tongue" by Eduardo Espina and "Otherness" by Luis Alberto Ambroggio."). XXXIV International Symposium of the Hispanic Cultural Literal Institute, Tribute to Ernesto Sábato, Buenos Aires, Argentina. October 2010.

• La desnudez del asombro (The Nakedness of Wonder). Madrid: Ediciones Lord Byron, 2009.

• El Arte de escribir poemas. Apuntes para no llevar necesariamente el apunte (The art of Writing Poems. Notes to Not Necessarily Take Notes for the Record). New York: Urpi Editors, 2009.

• "Esperanza en la piedra del silencio: la poesía de César Vallejo y Paul Celan." ("Hope in Stone of Silence: The Poetry of Paul Celan and Cesar Vallejo.") Essay read at Hofstra University. Fondo Documental de Prometeo, 2008 http://www.infolizer.com/prom5et5eod4i7git1ala1or7g/Cesar-vallejo-y-paul-celan.html

• "La poesía puertorriqueña." ("Puerto Rican Poetry"), Enciclopedia del Español en los Estados Unidos. New York: Instituto Cervantes y Editorial Santillana, 2008. 672-77.

• "El teatro puertorriqueño." ("Puerto Rican Theater"), Enciclopedia del Español en los Estados Unidos. New York: Instituto Cervantes y Editorial Santillana, 2008. 738-42.

• Zeleny, Mayra, ed. El cuerpo y la letra. Poética de Luis Alberto Ambroggio (The Body and the Letter. The Poetry of Luis Alberto Ambroggio). New York: North-American Academy of Spanish Language: 2008.

• Pozzi, Edna. "Bilingüe, un verdadero desafío." ("Bilingual, a Real Challenge.") XXXIII International Symposium of the Hispanic Cultural Literary Institute, University of Jujuy, Argentina, August 2008.

Zeleny, Mayra, ed. El cuerpo y la letra. La poética de Luis Alberto Ambroggio. (The Body and the Letter. The poetry of Luis Alberto Ambroggio). New York: North-American Academy of Spanish Language: 2008.

• "Borges y Rubén Darío." ("Borges and Ruben Dario.") Fondo Documental de Prometeo, 2007 http://www.infolizer.com/prom5et5eod4i7git1ala1or7g/Borges-y-dario.html

• Corda, Adriana. "El discurso del poder, la memoria y el exilio en los textos poéticos de Luis Alberto Ambroggio." ("The Discourse of Power, Memory and Exile in the Poetic Texts of Luis Alberto Ambroggio."), Universität zu Köln, Faculty of Philosophy, January, 2006.

• Corda, Adriana "Identidad y memoria en la lírica de Luis Alberto Ambroggio." ("Identity and Memory in the Poetry of Luis Alberto Ambroggio."), First International Conference on Literature, Buenos Aires, October, 2006.

• Los tres esposos de la noche (The Night's Three Husbands). San Jose, Costa Rica: La Casa de la poesía, 2005.

• Laberintos de Humo (Labyrinths of Smoke). Buenos Aires: Ed Tierra Firme, 2005.

• Corda, Adriana. "El Discurso de la Identidad en Los habitantes del poeta de Luis Alberto Ambroggio." ("The Discourse of Identity in The Inhabitants of the Poet by Luis Alberto Ambroggio."), X National Congress of Linguistics, Catholic University of Salta, July 2005.

• Corda, Adriana. Disociación del signo poético en Laberintos de Humo de Luis Alberto Ambroggio." ("Dissociation of the Poetic Sign in Laberintos de Humo by Luis Alberto Ambroggio."), XXVI International Symposium on Present and Future of American Literature University of Los Lagos, Puerto Montt, Chile. August, 2005.

Corda, Adriana. "La escritura poética de Luis Alberto Ambroggio como resistencia al discurso del poder. " ("Luis Alberto Ambroggio's poetic writing as resistance to the discourse of power"). XIII Argentine National Congress of Literature, Faculty of Arts, National University of Tucuman, August 2005. dracorda1.luisalbertoambroggio.com/index.html

• "La poesía de Estados Unidos en español." Hispanos en los Estados Unidos: Tercer pilar de la Hispanidad. ("Spanish Poetry in the United States" Hispanics in the United States: Third Pillar of the Hispanic World). Gerardo Piña-Rosales et al., eds. Nueva York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 2004. 197-213. http://www.ildialogo.org/poesia/islanegra128especialeupoen.pdf

He is a member of the North-American Academy of Spanish Language and of the Royal Spanish Academy, Chairman of the Delegation of the American Academy of the Spanish Language in Washington DC, Director of the Ibero-American Academy of Poetry, State Department Cultural Envoy to Nicaragua and El Salvador, Curator of the Smithsonian Institution for literary events, Member Emeritus of the Venezuelan Writers Circle, Deputy Chairman Founder and Honorary Member of the United Nations of the Letters, President of the Poetry and Policy Committee, Vice President of the World Council of Spanish-American Union of Writers, Consul at the World Poets Movement in Washington DC and a member of institutions such as the Academy of American Poets, Canadian Association of Spanish scholars, PEN, Hispanic Literary Cultural Institute; Board member of the Plaza Institute, Washington DC. He has received special recognition from the Embassy of Argentina in Washington, DC; the Matias Delgado University of El Salvador; the Board of Culture of Andalusia, the IES, Alcalá de Guadaíra, Seville, Spain; from the Guanajuato State, Mexico; from the Argentine Society of Arts, Sciences and Letters in the Legislature of Cordoba, Argentina and numerous diplomas and awards, including the first prize of the Spanish TV (TVE) for its Poetic Contest on poems about solitude in 2004; Recognition of Excellence by the Prometheus Poetry Association, Madrid; the International Prize in poetry "Simon Bolivar, the Liberator" 2010 and the Fulbright-Hays scholarship for the anthology from Blue to Red as well as his literary activities in Nicaragua. His poetry has been selected for the permanent archives of Latin American Literature at the U.S.Library of Congress and is part of virtual anthologies, magazines, cultural supplements and texts in literature, among them: Passages, Bridges to Literature, Breaking Down Barriers, Keystone and Encuentros. Other notable awards include: Trilce Medal, Universidad de Trujillo, Peru (2016). Named Adopted Son of Vallejo's Native city (2017). Doctor Honoris Causa (2011), Tel Aviv, Israel.

• El testigo se desnuda (The Witness Bares His Soul). Madrid: Asociación Prometeo de Poesía, 2002.

• Por si amanece: cantos de Guerra (If Dawn Comes: War Songs). Washington D.C: Horizonte21 Publishers, 1997.

• Los habitantes del poeta (The Inhabitants of the Poet). Washington DC: Horizonte 21 Publishers, 1997.

• Poemas desterrados (Exiled Poems). Buenos Aires: Ibero-American Academy of Poetry, 1995.

• Oda Ensimismada (Ode in and of Myself). Buenos Aires: Alicia Gallegos, 1994.

• Hombre del Aire (Air Man). Sevilla: Gallo de Vidrio, 1992.

• Difficult Beauty. Selected Poems 1987-2006. Yvette Neisser-Moreno, ed. New York: Cross-Cultural Communications, 2009.

• Poemas de amor y vida (Poems of Loving and Living). Los Angeles: Puerta Press, 1987.

In 1976 Ambroggio founded a successful company, Aerospace International Marketing (AIM), which he sold in 2001 and would continue as the Chief Advisor to the Board until 2008. Due to the successful international outreach of his company by trading in different continents, he took advantage of his travels to various countries to increase his knowledge in their poetic leading figures and events. Throughout his life he attended meetings and participated in recitals to exchange ideas and friendship with the likes of Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto Cardenal, Claribel Alegría, Pablo Antonio Cuadra, José Saramago, Robert Pinsky, among many others.

• En el jardín de los vientos. Obra poética 1974-2014 (In the Garden of the Winds. Poetic Corpus 1974-2014). Critical edition published by the North American Academy of the Spanish Language, New York: 2014, elected by Infobae as one of the best books of the year.

• "The Latin American Man and his Revolution." Conscientization for Liberation. Louis Colonnese, ed. Washington, DC: Division for Latin America United States Catholic Conference Washington, DC. 1971. pp. 3–22.

He came to the United States in 1967. Under the Leadership Program of the United Nations, he served as an intern in the U.S. Congress and then on the White House Cabinet Committee for the advancement of the Hispanic population during the Nixon administration. He also worked at the Pan American Development Foundation and at the Embassy of Argentina in Washington, DC.

Luis Alberto Ambroggio (Córdoba, Argentina, 1945) is an Argentine American poet, independent scholar and writer. Full Member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española) and correspondent of the Spanish Royal Academy (Real Academia Española). His works include award-winning essays, poetry and translations. Influenced by F. Nietzsche, César Vallejo, Jorge Luis Borges, Vicente Aleixandre, his poetry has been described by Pulitzer-prize winner Oscar Hijuelos as: