Orietta Lozano

{{Short description|Colombian poet (born 1956)}}

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Orietta Lozano (born 1956) is a contemporary Colombian poet.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uKiC6IeFR2UC&pg=PA277 |title=The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics |page=277 |last=Cushman |first=Stephen |author2=Cavanagh, Clare |author3=Ramazani, Jahan |author4=Rouzer, Paul |year=2012 |isbn=978-1400841424}}

Orietta Lozano was born in Cali, Colombia.{{cite web |url=http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/12666/16/Orietta-Lozano |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810141818/http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/12666/16/Orietta-Lozano |url-status=usurped |archive-date=August 10, 2014 |title=Orietta Lozano |publisher=Poetry International Rotterdam}} Lozano served as director of the Biblioteca Municipal del Centenario in Cali. She has been awarded the Eduardo Cote Lamus national prize for her poetry in 1986 and the award for best erotic verse by the Silva Poetry House in 1993. Lozano was invited to the 13th Biennale Internationale des Poètes in Paris in 1995.{{cite web |url=http://portal.uexternado.edu.co/pdf/1_decanaturaCultural/libro68.pdf |work=Un libro por centavos |title=Resplandor del abismo |publisher=Universidad Externado de Colombia |language=es}} Her poetry is noted for its sensuality and eroticism.