Enrique Geenzier

{{Short description|Panamanian writer, politician and diplomat}}

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|birth_place = Chitré, Panama

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|death_place = Colón, Panama

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Juan Enrique Geenzier (June 12, 1887 – September 21, 1943) was a self-taught Panamanian writer, politician, and diplomat.

In 1916, he won the Natural Flower (Flor Natural) prize at the Floral Games. Geenzier ran the literary magazine Esto y Aquello. He served as a diplomat in Costa Rica, New York, and Venezuela.{{in lang|es}} [http://www.panamapoesia.com/pt05.htm "Enrique Geenzier"]. Panama Poesia.{{Unreliable source?|date=June 2009}} He also was Secretary of External Relations and the governor of Colon.

Though some romanticism is apparent in Geenzier's poetry, its predominant impulse is modernism; its sentimentality is often somewhat ironic. Demetrio Korsi wrote of Geenzier in his Antología de Panamá: "In his moments of true inspiration, he is simply exquisite."{{in lang|es}} Demetrio Korsi. Antología de Panamá: parnaso y prosa. Casa Editorial Maucci (1926), p. 123. ("En sus ratos de verdadera inspiración, es sencillamente exquisito.")