This chapter provides a sketch of some recent general poetic trends and more detailed observations about a small selection of poets who might be said to represent and at times surpass these tendencies. Perhaps the most important movement or trend in Latin American poetry in the last thirty years is the neobarroco or neobaroque. If the committed poetry of the 1960s and 70s focussed on the message, for example the denunciation of social injustice, neobarroco poetry turned to the medium, namely the experience of language itself. Objetivismo, in contrast, concentrates on the creation of objects in language, and reacted to excess and sensuality with poetry that was stripped of all adornment, including metaphors and even adjectives or adverbs. The work of very recent writers – the so-called “New Lyric” – gives an impression of ambition and skill with which young poets are addressing the page and the reader today. Despite widespread claims of poetry’s irrelevance, anachronism, or wilful isolation, it continues to be relevant for authors, readers, and publishers. New technologies and media have not rung the knell for writing verse, but instead provide some of the liveliest spaces for the circulation and even composition of new poems.