Adhely Rivero

Adhely Rivero was born in 1954 in Guadarrama, Arismendi, Barinas state, Venezuela. He has lived in Valencia, Venezuela since 1970. He earned his undergraduate degree in Language and Literature from the University of Carabobo, then undertook master’s studies at the same university. He has served as chair of the Literature Department of the Office of Culture of the University of Carabobo and Director of Revista Poesía and Ediciones Poesía. His books include En sol de sed (1990), Los poemas de Arismendi (1996), Tierras de Gadín (1999), Los Poemas del Viejo (2002), Antología Poética (2003), Medio Siglo, La Vida Entera (2005; translated into English by Sam Hamill and Esteban Moore as Half a Century, The Entire Life in 2009), Poemas (an anthology published in Costa Rica, 2009), Compañera (2012), Poesíe Caré, Poemas queridos (2016, translated into Italian by Emilio Coco and published in Colombia). His work appears in many Venezuelan anthologies, as well as the Italian anthology La Flor de la Poesía Latinoamericana de hoy, volumes one and two, published in 2016; La vida entera: Antología (Ediciones El Taller Blanco, 2021, Colombia); and Frontera Invisible (Editorial Sultana del lago, 2022). His work has been translated into English, Portuguese, Italian, German, French, and Arabic.