Friday , April 12th, 2024
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
$8 Somos members; $10 non-members
Virtual Event
*UPDATE* Due to a family matter, Martín Espada is unable to travel for his reading and workshop. This event will now take place on Zoom. A link will be sent out after registration. Thank you for understanding!
Martín Espada has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator. His new book of poems from Norton is called Floaters, winner of the 2021 National Book Award. Other books of poems include Vivas to Those Who Have Failed (2016), The Trouble Ball (2011), The Republic of Poetry (2006) and Alabanza (2003). 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, 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.
To register for the reading: www.somostaos.org/calendar/#events
