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| Espada & Gillan - 2016 |
Martín Espada
has had a long relationship with Maria Gillan and has read a number of times at the Poetry Center in Paterson, NJ.Martín Espada
was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957. He has published more than fifteen books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator. His newest collection of poems is Vivas to Those Who Have Failed (W.W. Norton, 2016). His other books of poems include The Trouble Ball
, The Republic of Poetry, Alabanza, A Mayan Astronomer in Hell’s Kitchen and Dead Radiators.His many 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. The title poem of his collection Alabanza, about 9/11, has been widely anthologized and performed.
His book of essays, Zapata’s Disciple (1998), has been banned in Tucson as part of the Mexican-American Studies Program outlawed by the state of Arizona.
A graduate of Northeastern University Law School and a former tenant lawyer in Greater Boston’s Latino community, Espada is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Martin's website is at www.martinespada.netMaria Mazziotti Gillan is the author of twenty-one books. Her latest publications are the poetry collection, What Blooms in Winter and the poetry and art collection, The Girls in the Chartreuse Jackets . Maria's official website is at MariaGillan.com.
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