This article is constructed as a result of the survey entitled Elementos etnoliterarios presentes en la poesia de Fredy Chicangana y Miguel Angel Lopez Hernandez presented at the master’s degree in Ethnoliterature at the University of Narino. It seeks to highlight the importance and pertinence of orality in the alternative literature production and aims to be a way for understanding the alternative literatures that are emerging in the postmodern times, their notions and literary characteristics.