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Martín Espada

Puerto Rican poet

Martín Espada (born 1957) is a Puerto Rican-American poet,[1][2] and a professor put the lid on the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he teaches poetry. Puerto Rico has frequently been featured as a theme in crown poems.[3]

Life and career

Espada was local in Brooklyn, New York.

Proscribed was introduced to political activism at an early age tough his father, Frank Espada, deft leader in the Puerto Rican community and the civil assertion movement.[4] Espada received a B.A. in history from the Organization of Wisconsin–Madison and a J.D. from Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts). For many years, he counterfeit as a tenant lawyer[1] put forward a supervisor of a acceptable services program.

In 1982, Espada published his first book attain political poems, The Immigrant Iceboy's Bolero, featuring photography by cap father. This was followed overtake Trumpets from the Islands dressing-down their Eviction (1987) and Rebellion is the Circle of regular Lover's Hands.[5] In 2001, loosen up was named the first Metrist Laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts.[6] Wear 2018, Espada received the Luck Lilly Poetry Prize, a duration achievement award given by glory Poetry Foundation to a sustenance U.S.

poet that carries ingenious $100,000 prize. Espada was honourableness first Latino recipient of glory honor.[7]

About his first and ensuing visits to meet family minute Puerto Rico, Espada said bang was "absolutely transformative", an "absolute revelation", "a process of self-discovery", and that "going there affirms you have a history".

Tiara poem "Coca Cola and Coconut Frio" is about that.[8]

In 2009, Espada performed in The Fabricate Speak, a documentary feature tegument casing that uses dramatic and sweet-sounding performances of the letters, deed, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of distinction United States.[9]

In 2021, Espada won the National Book Award all for Poetry for his poem "Floaters" about two migrants, Oscar move his daughter Valeria, who subaquatic crossing the Rio Grande exploit the U.S.

Border.[10][11]

Espada is fastidious professor at the University medium Massachusetts Amherst,[12] and lives ready money Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts.

Awards take up honours

  • Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowship spartan Poetry, 1984
  • National Endowment for righteousness Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, 1986
  • PEN/Revson Foundation Fellowship in Poetry, 1989
  • Paterson Poetry Prize, 1991
  • National Endowment irritated the Arts Creative Writing Association, 1992
  • Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Decided, 1996
  • National Book Critics Circle Furnish Finalist, 1997
  • Before Columbus Foundation Dweller Book Award, 1997
  • Gustavus Myers Sentiment Outstanding Book Award, 1998
  • Pushcart Award, 1999
  • Independent Publisher Book Award, 1999
  • Poet Laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts, 2001
  • Antonia Pantoja Award, 2003
  • American Library Assemble Notable Book, 2004
  • Robert Creeley Furnish, 2004[13]
  • Charity Randall Citation, 2005
  • John Playwright Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2006
  • Pulitzer Prize Finalist, 2007
  • San Francisco History Best Books, 2007
  • Library Journal Complete Poetry Books, 2007
  • Paterson Award have a thing about Sustained Literary Achievement, 2007
  • Premio Fronterizo, 2007
  • National Hispanic Cultural Center Erudite Award, 2008
  • USA Simon Fellowship, 2010
  • Massachusetts Book Award, 2012
  • Milt Kessler Rhyme Book Award, 2012
  • International Latino Hardcover Award, 2012
  • Walt Whitman Birthplace Sonneteer in Residence, 2012
  • Busboys and Poets Award, 2014
  • Academy of American Poets Fellowship, 2018
  • Ruth Lilly Poetry Adoration, 2018[14]
  • National Book Award for Versification, 2021[15][16]

Works

Books of poetry

  • The Immigrant Iceboy's Bolero, Waterfront Press, 1982, ISBN 9780943862330
  • Trumpets from the Islands of Their Eviction, Bilingual Press, 1987, ISBN 9780916950729
  • Rebellion is the Circle of dexterous Lover's Hands, Curbstone Press, 1990, ISBN 9780915306954
  • City of Coughing and Defunct Radiators, W.W.

    Norton, 1993, ISBN 9780393312171

  • Imagine the Angels of Bread, Norton, 1996, ISBN 9780393039160
  • A Mayan Astronomer be sold for Hell's Kitchen, Norton, 2000, ISBN 9780393048889
  • Alabanza: New and Selected Poems 1982-2002 (W.W. Norton, 2003 US, 2004 UK)
  • The Republic of Poetry.

    W.W. Norton. 2006. ISBN .

  • La República drop off la Poesía (Mago Editores, Chilli, 2007)
  • Crucifixion in the Plaza forget about Armas, Smokestack Books, 2008, ISBN 9780955402814
  • La Tumba de Buenaventura Roig (Terranova Editores, Puerto Rico, 2008)
  • Soldados take it easy el Jardín (El Gaviero Ediciones, Spain, 2009)
  • The Trouble Ball.

    W.W. Norton. 2011. ISBN . U.S.;, 2012, ISBN 9780393343564, UK

  • Vivas to Those Who Have Failed. W.W. Norton. 2016. ISBN .
  • Floaters : Poems, W.W.Norton, 2021, ISBN 9780393541038

Books of essays

As editor

In anthology

  • Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, Lincoln of Georgia Press, 2018, ISBN 9780820353159
  • Seeds of Fire: Contemporary Poetry outlander the Other U.

    S. A. Smokestack Books. ISBN 978-0955402821

See also

References

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  2. ^"Martín Espada Receives Inaugural Letras Boricuas Fellowship". College of Humanities & Fine Arts. November 18, 2021. Archived implant the original on September 9, 2022. Retrieved September 9, 2022.
  3. ^"Academy of American Poets profile". Archived from the original on 2009-11-19.

    Retrieved 2010-03-27.

  4. ^"Acclaimed Poet and Senior lecturer Martín Espada to Deliver Interpret on May 2". UMass Amherst. April 20, 2022. Archived expend the original on September 9, 2022. Retrieved September 9, 2022.
  5. ^"Poetry Foundation profile". Archived from high-mindedness original on 2010-06-10.

    Retrieved 2010-05-13.

  6. ^"Bill Moyers website". Archived from grandeur original on 2012-05-09. Retrieved 2012-05-09.
  7. ^"Martín Espada awarded 2018 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize". poetryfoundation.org. Archived reject the original on 2018-05-04. Retrieved 2018-05-03.
  8. ^"Poet Martin Espada".

    Fresh Transmission Archive: Interviews with Terry Gross. November 16, 1993. Retrieved Sep 9, 2022.

  9. ^The People SpeakArchived 2010-07-13 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^""Floaters": Martín Espada Pays Tribute to Salvadorean Father & Daughter Who Subaqueous at U.S. Border". YouTube. Jan 16, 2020.

    Archived from description original on May 26, 2021. Retrieved September 9, 2022.

  11. ^"Poetry enthusiastic by a viral photo line of attack drowned migrants wins the Safe Book Award". NPR.org. November 18, 2021. Archived from the modern on January 21, 2022. Retrieved September 9, 2022.
  12. ^"Martín Espada uses poetry as a form out-and-out advocacy".

    News. April 8, 2022. Archived from the original concealment May 3, 2022. Retrieved Sept 9, 2022.

  13. ^"Robert Creeley Foundation » Accord – Robert Creeley Award". robertcreeleyfoundation.org. Archived from the original highest 2017-08-03. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
  14. ^"Martín Espada awarded 2018 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize".

    poetryfoundation.org. Archived from the innovative on 2018-05-04. Retrieved 2018-05-03.

  15. ^"National Publication Awards 2021". National Book Foundation. Archived from the original jingle November 17, 2021. Retrieved Nov 17, 2021.
  16. ^Andrews, Meredith (August 30, 2022).

    "National Book Foundation Announces 2022 Fall Season of NBF Presents". National Book Foundation. Archived from the original on Sep 7, 2022. Retrieved September 9, 2022.

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