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Martín Espada

Martín Espada was born in Brooklyn, New York. He has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist, and translator. His forthcoming book of poems from Norton is called Floaters. Other books of poems include Vivas to Those Who Have Failed (2016),  The Trouble Ball (2011), The Republic of Poetry (2006), Alabanza (2003), A Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen (2000), Imagine the Angels of Bread (1996), and City of Coughing and Dead Radiators (1993). He is the editor of What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump (2019). He has received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, the Robert Creeley Award, the National Hispanic Cultural Center Literary Award, an American Book Award, an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, the PEN/Revson Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. The Republic of Poetry was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His book of essays and poems, Zapata's Disciple: Essays (1998), was banned in Tucson as part of the Mexican-American Studies Program outlawed by the state of Arizona, and reissued by Northwestern. A former tenant lawyer, Espada is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
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Poetry Family & Relationships

The Cannon on the Hood of My Father’s Car

Poetry by Martín Espada November 5, 2020
Someone tore the cannon off the hood. That’s why we missed it.
Poetry Family & Relationships

I Would Steal a Car for You

Poetry by Martín Espada October 25, 2019
I may be sixty-two, but I wish I could steal a car for you.
Photo by David González
Back Draft Interview Lit World

Back Draft: Martín Espada

By Ben Purkert, Martín Espada, and Donald Hall August 12, 2019
The poet discusses his relationship with the late Donald Hall and the power of art, incarnate.
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