"My poetry speaks of life.
And sometimes life isn't
pretty. In life we encounter
the beautiful, the ugly, the
joyful and the sorrowful.
We
encounter the angel
at moments of inspiration
and wrestle with him
during times of struggle and suffering."
-Armando Ibáñez
Armando Ibáñez, a priest in the Dominican Order of the Southern Dominican Province, published his first collection of poetry, Midday Shadows, in 1980. Over the years his poetry has been published in numerous publications, including The Double Dealer Redux, Aciendo Harte, and Ruah.In addition, Ibáñez has produced three poetry-videos. Two of these poetry-videos - Mesquites Never Die and Sea- were selected and shown in an international festival. Mesquites Never Die was also shown in two national festivals.
Today, Ibáñez is the chaplain for a community of cloistered Dominican nuns at the Monastery of the Angels in Los Angeles.
Ibáñez earned a Master of Fine Arts Degree in producing from the American
Film Institute.Father Ibáñez also served as campus minister at the Newman centers at Tulane University and at Stanford.
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