High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yolanda Blanco (born in 1954) is a Nicaraguan poet. Nicaragua is well known for its world class poets. Before 1970, all of Nicaragua’s major poets had been men. Then an outstanding group of women started writing poetry. These poets “are currently writing the best new poetry in their country and would rank among the best new poets in Latin America.” Blanco belongs to this group of poets.