Working Writers Series featuring Martín Espada

Name: Working Writers Series featuring Martín Espada
Start: 2025-10-02T18:30:00-04:00
Location: College of the Holy Cross

Schedule

Thu, 02 Oct, 2025 at 06:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

College of the Holy Cross | Worcester, MA

Attention, Worcester Friends!
Esteemed poet Martín Espada will be reading at the College of the Holy Cross.
The event is free and open to the public.
Details are below:
Thursday, Oct. 2
Craft Talk, 5:00 pm Smith 210
Reading, 6:30 pm, Rehm Library
Martín Espada has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist, and translator. His new book of poems, Jailbreak of Sparrows, was published by Knopf in spring 2025. His previous book, Floaters, won the National Book Award for Poetry and a Massachusetts Book Award. His poetry collections from Norton include Vivas to Those Who Have Failed (2016), The Trouble Ball (2011), The Republic of Poetry (2006), Alabanza (2003) and Imagine the Angels of Bread (1996). He is the editor of What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump (2019). Espada 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, a Letras Boricuas Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. The title poem of his collection Alabanza, about 9/11, has been widely anthologized and performed. His book of essays and poems, Zapata’s Disciple (1998), was banned in Tucson as part of the Mexican-American Studies Program outlawed by the state of Arizona. A former tenant lawyer with Su Clínica Legal in Greater Boston, Espada is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.