Martin Espada Poetry Reading

Poet Martin Espada read his poetry in this free public event at the Downes Hall of Fame room in the Alumni Healthful Living Center on September 30. The event was intended to acquaint the College community with provocative poetry. Martin Espada (1957- ), born in New York city, and once a practicing lawyer in Chelsea, Massachusetts, is regarded as one of the leading poets of Puerto Rican heritage in the U.S. Author of five books of poetry, including City of coughing and dead radiators (Norton, 1993), Imagine the angels of bread (Norton, 1996) and most recently, A Mayan astronomer in Hell's Kitchen (Norton, 2000), Espada has also published a book of essays (Zapata's Disciple, South End Press, Cambridge, 1998), edited an anthology, Poetry like bread: poets of the political imagination, (Curbstone Press, Willimantic, CT, 1994), and a translation into English of a selection of poems by Clemente Soto Velez.