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Colombia: ‘The Poetess of La Candelaria’

Categories: Latin America, Colombia, Arts & Culture

Mike blogs [1] about Johanna Henry, a woman who hands out poems “for a small contribution” in a plaza in Bogotá: “I don't know her history well, but her roots are in San Andres [2], a Carribean island which is probably Colombia's most unlikely territory. She's also lived in different parts of mainland Colombia and says she was displaced by violent groups, who forced her to move to Bogotá.”