Colo Lopez

Colo López (Mar del Plata, 1972) started writing poetry at 13 as a refuge from heartbreak and anguish. At 16, in a fit of rage, he destroyed his first poems. He picked it up again at 17 and didn't stop until 23, when the happiness of his first girlfriend quieted the poet within. Then came decades of intense living: failed relationships, a thwarted fatherhood, the birth of his first child at 40, the death of his father after a long illness, and the miracle of his mother surviving an aneurysm. For years, he didn't write. He simply lived. Until poetry returned, like a prodigal son, in the last stage of his life.

Colo is a witness to digital transformation. He grew up between vinyl and screens, between payphones and the internet in his pocket. That transition from analog to digital permeates his work: poems about loneliness amidst noise, human connection in a virtual world, nostalgia for a past that won't return, and hope for a future yet to come.

Poetry in the Streaming Age is his debut. An invitation to journey through the emotions of a man who has moved from radio to writing without losing the essence of his humanity.