The Society of the Liberating Women Poets
Boyacá is a land of deep historical roots and extraordinary geographical diversity. Home to the Muisca civilisation, the territory of the Zaque of Hunza, and the cradle of Colombia's independence, its mountains, towns and collective memory have inspired countless artistic expressions throughout history.
Within this landscape of tradition and beauty emerged Woman, Word and Poetry (Mujer, Palabra y Poesía – M.P.P.), a women's literary collective that has found in writing a space to express sensitivity, preserve memory, and shape cultural identity through the written word.
More than simply a group of writers, M.P.P. is both a cultural and human community that has transformed poetry into a place of encounter, reflection and collective creation. Its members have woven together a body of work in which the landscapes of Boyacá, women's lived experience, spirituality, memory, and the many ways of inhabiting the world converge.
Their literary journey, reflected in the successive volumes of Mujer Boyacense: Antología Poética (Boyacá Woman: A Poetic Anthology) and in several collective poetry collections published since 2014, reveals a mature and continually evolving literary project. These books bring together distinct poetic voices that engage in dialogue while preserving the unique identity of each author. Their shared journey has been symbolised through the metaphor of the "literary flight" of the Ave Viajera ("Travelling Bird"), representing a body of writing that seeks to transcend borders and leave a lasting mark on the literary heritage of Boyacá.
The collective has also enjoyed the symbolic support of Joseph Berolo, an advocate of international initiatives that foster connections among writers and promote a global literary community known as the "United Nations of Letters."
From Literary Gatherings to a Collective Literary Project
The origins of Woman, Word and Poetry date back to 2013, when a group of women from Boyacá began meeting in Tunja, united by their passion for literature, poetry and artistic creation. The late Alicia Bernal de Mondragón (pen name Yamile Alberd) played a pivotal role in consolidating and sustaining the collective. Her generous, steadfast leadership guided the group's development and ensured the continuity of its publishing work by bringing together shared aspirations, creative energies and common projects.
As a cultural promoter, Alicia Bernal championed the publication of the group's various anthologies and helped transform their literary gatherings into works that reached new audiences, leaving behind a lasting legacy of commitment to literature and to the cultural life of the region.
The landscapes of Boyacá soon became a constant source of inspiration. Places such as Chita, Tunja, Iza, Socha, Viracachá and El Espino ceased to be merely geographical locations, becoming instead symbolic landscapes where memory, family roots, identity and contemplation of life reside.
Since then, the collective has produced an impressive body of editorial work, including ten volumes of Mujer Boyacense: Antología Poética, alongside thematic collections such as Woman, Ecology and the Environment and Boyacá Woman, Poetry and Peace. Across these publications, recurring themes emerged: womanhood, nature, memory, reconciliation and spiritual exploration.
Each volume represents another tributary feeding the same poetic river—a current in which every individual voice retains its own character while contributing to a shared literary identity.
A Constellation of Authors: Seven Voices, One Poetic Flight
María Rosa Cifuentes Jiménez: Poetry Born from Memory and Emotion
Born in Chita, a northern Boyacá town where mountain landscapes meet the distinctive frailejón plant of the Andean páramo, María Rosa Cifuentes Jiménez writes deeply intimate poetry in which personal experience is transformed into literary expression. Her work is marked by a confessional voice that explores the territories of memory, absence, love and the emotions that leave an enduring imprint upon the soul.
In her poems, suffering is not merely a wound but a source of creation. Nostalgia, loss and affection become poetic images capable of transcending personal experience to touch universal human emotions. Her lyricism possesses an elegiac quality, where language itself becomes a refuge, a source of consolation, and a means of reconciliation with life.
María Rosa brings to the collective a poetry of profound human sensitivity, where vulnerability is transformed into strength and every verse gathers fragments of memory, shaping them into shared beauty.
Elba Rosa Camargo Alvarado: The Delicate Architecture of Language
Born in Iza, a town renowned for its rich history and striking natural beauty, Elba Rosa Camargo Alvarado crafts reflective, symbolic poetry in which nature, womanhood and the human experience converge. Her writing reveals a meticulous relationship with language: every word is chosen as an essential element within a carefully constructed aesthetic whole.
Her work moves effortlessly between traditional poetic forms and free verse, reflecting a continual search for new ways of expressing what lies beyond the visible. For Elba Rosa, poetry is an exercise in attentive observation, where the ordinary is transformed into metaphor and the simplest moment may reveal unexpected meaning.
Beyond her literary contributions, she has also played a significant organisational and leadership role within the collective. Her commitment to promoting poetry has enabled M.P.P.'s publications to reach wider audiences and academic circles, strengthening the group's presence within the cultural life of Boyacá.
Beatriz Pinzón de Díaz: When Images Become Verse
Beatriz's poetry emerges from the meeting point between word and image. Her artistic background allows her to conceive poetry as a space where the visual and the written naturally interact, creating a body of work in which aesthetic experience becomes a continual search for beauty, emotion and sensitivity.
Her poems pulse with a profound connection to nature and to the land of Boyacá. Rivers, forests, trees, cultivated fields and the ancestral craft of producing panela—unrefined cane sugar—become living landscapes where memory resists oblivion. Drawing upon these familiar images, Beatriz, a native of Chitaraque, creates a poetic universe in which nature appears as a maternal, sacred presence deeply rooted in the identity of her homeland.
Her poetry celebrates the earth as the source of life, the guardian of memory and the foundation of rural communities. Every verse conveys respect, gratitude and admiration for a countryside that not only inspires her writing but also gives profound meaning to a body of work firmly anchored in its roots.
Aura Inés Barón: Poetry as a Path of Hope
Born in Chivatá, Aura Inés writes poetry that moves gracefully between contemplation of the natural world and an exploration of humanity's deepest emotions. In her verse, landscape is never merely scenery; it becomes a reflection of the inner self, while memory unfolds as a place where hope, feeling and the meaning of life can flourish.
Her work reveals a profoundly humane and spiritual outlook. Those who long for affection, comfort and companionship occupy a central place in her poems. Alongside them appear recurring images of childhood, Christmas, life itself and the Heavenly Father. Together these themes shape a poetic vision nourished by Christian faith and sustained by a belief in compassion as a means of affirming human dignity.
With language that is both gentle and accessible, Aura Inés creates a poetic voice that invites reflection and a return to life's essential values. Her poems celebrate tenderness, compassion and hope, transforming language into a bridge towards consolation, faith and the enduring dignity of the human spirit.
Nelly Sol Gómez de Ocampo: History Reawakened Through Poetry
Born in Chita and raised in Socha, Nelly Sol Gómez de Ocampo has successfully united her vocation as an educator and historian with a deeply cultivated literary sensibility. In her work, poetry becomes a space where memory, history and the human condition coexist, inviting readers to revisit the past through a profoundly poetic lens.
History stands at the heart of her creative vision. Historical events, notable figures and local traditions are transformed into living material for both poetry and drama, in an act of remembrance that rescues voices, experiences and collective memories from oblivion. Her writing combines critical insight with emotional depth, discovering in the past a means of understanding the present and strengthening the bonds of cultural identity.
Through language that is both serene and evocative, she creates a body of work in which memory achieves permanence through art. Her poems and dramatic writings celebrate history as a shared inheritance and as an inexhaustible source of inspiration for literary creation.
Cecilia Urrutia Zorro: Poetry of Woman, Earth and Peace
Just as her poems reveal a profound sensitivity towards human and emotional values, Cecilia Urrutia Zorro, born in Tunja and now based in Bucaramanga, finds in the mother, womanhood, Mother Earth, tenderness and peace the fundamental pillars of her poetic creation. These themes shape a lyricism of deep humanistic meaning. In her work, words become a celebration of life, love and the harmony between human beings and their surroundings.
Her poetry is distinguished by a continual exploration of feminine experience and cultural identity, blending contemporary sensibility with a profound awareness of place and territory. From this perspective, her writing reaffirms the dignity of women, celebrates the bond with nature, and honours memory and ancestral roots as essential elements of human existence.
Within this creative vision, the search for peace becomes an ethical and aesthetic principle that runs throughout her work. Her poetic voice invites hope, reconciliation and connection, establishing a literary expression in which words are at once an embodiment of beauty, a reflection on the human condition, and a commitment to life.
Isabel O’Donoghue: Life Transformed into Poetry
Born in El Espino, raised in Chiscas and now living in England, Isabel has recently become part of this group of women writers. Her poetry emerges from a profound sensitivity towards life, relationships and inner experience. Her writing transforms emotions, memories and contemplation of the world into verses where language becomes an act of creation, celebration and a meeting place with the soul.
Her poetry explores themes such as love, motherhood, memory, feminine identity, nature and the traces left by difficult experiences. Through an intimate and reflective voice, she transforms pain, loss and adversity into spaces of learning, resilience and renewal.
Her contribution to the poetic group lies in an authentic and humanistic perspective, one that discovers beauty in personal experiences and transforms them into universal emotions. Her verses are a tribute to life, to roots, and to the human capacity to bloom again after the storm.
A Tapestry of Voices That Endures
Each author in Mujer, Palabra y Poesía represents a different thread within the same creative tapestry. Some write from memory, others from history, faith, nature, art or feminine experience; yet they all share one conviction: that words possess the power to preserve, transform and unite.
Together, these voices form a true literary constellation, where each star retains its own brilliance while, collectively, they illuminate the same sky: that of Boyacá’s women’s poetry.
Lovers of poetry will find in their new anthology, to be released at the end of September, a work that celebrates the richness and sensitivity of their verses.















