In Memoriam. María Teresa Ramírez Nieva

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Published: Jan 16, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.53556/zkg4x284
Keywords:
Colombian Poetry, Afro-Colombian Cultural Legacy, Afro-Colombian Women Poets

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Lucía Ortiz
Regis College
María Mercedes Jaramillo
Fitchburg State College

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This essay pays tribute to the Afro-Colombian poet María Teresa Ramírez, who passed away on July 13, 2025. María Teresa Ramírez's legacy to the national cultural heritage emerges from her verses, which captured traditions, stories, and her life experiences. Her work brings new poetic images, words in Bembérico, poems in Palenquero, and sonorous rhythms that suggest other ways of seeing and experiencing the universe. Some published and unpublished poems are presented with the aim of disseminating the work of a creator of the "living word" whose contributions enrich Colombian culture as a whole.

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Vol. 66 (2025)
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Author Biographies

Lucía Ortiz, Regis College

Lucía Ortiz has a PhD from Boston University and is Spanish professor in the Department of Humanities at Regis College in Massachusetts. Her research focuses on Afro-Latin American literature and women’s literature. Her books and articles have been published in Colombia, Latin America and the United States.

 

 

María Mercedes Jaramillo, Fitchburg State College

María Mercedes Jaramillo has a Ph. D. from Syracuse University, and is a Fitchburg State University's Emerita Professor; she was president of the Association of Colombianist (2011-2013). Her several articles and books about Latin American theater, women writers and Colombian literature and culture have been published in Colombia, the United States and Latin America.