Poema Volcanico
Poema may refer to: * Poema (musical group), American singer-songwriter duo * ''POEMA'', a poem collection of Mauricio Kilwein Guevara See also *Poetry Poetry (from the Greek language, Greek word ''poiesis'', "making") is a form of literature, literary art that uses aesthetics, aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meaning (linguistics), meanings in addition to, or in ...

Poema (musical Group)
Poema is an American acoustic singer-songwriter duo from Albuquerque, New Mexico. The group was formerly signed with Tooth & Nail Records and has released two EPs and a full-length album with them. History Elle and Shealeen Puckett, sisters born and raised in the American Southwest, comprise the band Poema. The female duo has been playing music ever since they can remember. At ten and twelve, the equal and opposites would walk to the local gas station to play Elvis covers for anyone filling up that day until they made enough money to buy candy. They were surrounded by music their entire lives, starting with their parents being in bands to playing music since pre-adolescence. The sisters never planned to be professional musicians until an extremely positive reception following a benefit show in 2008 in their hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico. After pondering shortly after the show, the sisters formed Poema, won a "Battle of the Bands" competition and recorded two demos. In ...
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Mauricio Kilwein Guevara
Mauricio Alberto Kilwein Guevara (born 1961) is a writer, translator, performer, activist, and educator born in Belencito, Colombia and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 2002, he was the first person of Latino heritage elected as President of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP). He has won national and international awards for his writing, including the Contemporary Poetry Series Competition (''Postmortem'', 1992) and an International Latino Book Award (''POEMA'', 2010). Across genres, he is known for a seriocomic writing style that investigates the overlapping of voices, experiences, and tensions that complicate immigrant life in the United States and throughout the global Latin American diaspora. He is a professor of English and the Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Early life and education Kilwein Guevara was born in 1961 in Belencito, Colombia, a small Andean town 210 kilometers (130 miles) northw ...
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