Espada

Martin Espada is read and loved by labor organizers who rarely read other contemporary poets.

Indicator Species : Emily Warn : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

It would seem likely to me that writers such as Derek Wolcott, Lucille Clifton, and, perhaps, Martin Espada, have at least been considered for the prize.

Those Pesky Minority Poets : Rigoberto González : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Those poems, and the poems of poets I admire like Nikky Finney, Elizabeth Alexander, Lorna Goodison and Martin Espada, to name just two, are engaged in this business of resisting the erasure of the bodies, imaginations, intelligences and emotions of black and brown people from the memory of the past.

Barbecue and History : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

I think of Martin Espada at Calabash on a windy afternoon in the foreground of a photo-perfect Jamaican sunset, wearing a large white shirt and a rougish cap on his head, wiping away strands of his sweat-sokaed hair from his face, his lips pouting and stretching the words out: “Alabanza!”

Martin Espada : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

The Republic of Poetry (Norton, 2006) by Martin Espada

Essentialism? Say What? : Emily Warn : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Martin Espada: Kwame Dawes: Harriet the Blog: The Poetry Foundation

Martin Espada : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

I am so glad that Martin Espada’s The Republic of Poetry was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry because more people will read him and if they are lucky they will get to see him do his wonderful dance/reading of his difficult (yes, I said it) poems.

Martin Espada : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Martin Espada dances when he reads – his tall, full body twists elegantly, and he lets his right hand create waves of grace in the air as his words hustle to keep up with the body’s desire to leap, to take to the air.

Martin Espada : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

The first one was to be a personal pleasure – Martin Espada’s 50th birthday bash at the Bowery.

Poet as Platypus. : Patricia Smith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

The News still calls Espada the "traitor who flipped the Senate twices this summer," adding, "But on this issue, on farmworkers 'rights, Espada is on the side of the angels."

Some Good Press for Espada -- No Joke! 2010