Vicente Espinales Tejena (Portoviejo, 1940) is a lawyer, doctor, painter, poet and former president of the Manabí chapter of the House of Ecuadorian Culture. He is cardiologist with a medical degree from the University of Guayaquil and earned a law degree from the Vicente Rocafuerte Secular University. He has also worked as a radio newscaster and as a university professor at the Technical University of Manabí. He has received national and international awards for his poetry.
Crowned poet Vicente Espinales Tejena of Manabí, Ecuador gives a speech at the XIII Verse Recital “Portoviejo es Poesía” (Portoviejo is Poetry)
Vicente Espinales Tejena recites a poem at the International Day of Museums 8, organized by the House of Ecuadorian Culture
Works
Poetry
- Febrero: poesía (1972)
- Poesía 76 (1976)
- El gorrión regresa por sus alas: antología (2001)
- Viviendo el amor (2003)
- Párteme el corazón: poesia (2011)
- Poesía en paralelo cero (2013)
Nonfiction
- Eloy Alfaro y la cultura (1995)