Martín Espada has published nearly twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator. His latest collection of poems is Vivas to Those Who Have Failed (2016). Other books of poems include The Trouble Ball (2011), The Republic of Poetry (2006), Alabanza (2003), and A Mayan Astronomer in Hell’s Kitchen (2000). His honors include the Shelley Memorial Award, the Robert Creeley Award, the National Hispanic Cultural Center Literary Award, an American Book Award, the PEN/Revson Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. The Republic of Poetry was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A former tenant lawyer in Greater Boston’s Latino community, Espada is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
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| Date | Title | Location |
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| The Poetry Project's 51st Annual New Year's Day Marathon | New York, NY | |
| This is the Year: Book Launch with Gloria Muñoz | St. Petersburg, FL | |
| 29th Showcase Reading: J. Mae Barizo, Dorothea Lasky, Maggie Millner, & Estha Weiner | New York, NY | |
| 29th Showcase Reading: Rio Cortez, Marilyn Hacker, Robert Wood Lynn, and John Yau | New York, NY | |
| H. G. Dierdorff & Erika Howsare | Charlottesville, VA | |
| Woodland Pattern's 31st Annual Poetry Marathon | Milwaukee, WI | |
| 29th Showcase Reading: Carolina Ebeid, Sally Wen Mao, Shane McCrae, & Evie Shockley | New York, NY | |
| Tiana Clark: Scorched Earth w/ Terrance Hayes | Brooklyn, NY |