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DESCRIPTION:Join us for an online evening with acclaimed poet Martín Espada. A native 
 of Brooklyn, he has published more than 20 books as a poet, editor, 
 essayist and translator. His forthcoming book of poems from Norton is 
 called "Floaters."\n\nOther books of poems include "Vivas to Those Who Have 
 Failed (2016) "The Trouble Ball" (2011), "The Republic of Poetry" (2006), 
 Alabanza (2003), "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). 
 He has received the American Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Paterson 
 Poetry Prize; he’s been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the 
 National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2018 he was awarded the Ruth Lilly 
 Poetry Prize by the Poetry Foundation.\n\nHis 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, and 
 reissued by Northwestern University. A former tenant lawyer, Espada is a 
 professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.\n\nAbout 
 "Vivas to Those Who Have Failed":\n"Espada at his brilliant best, the poet 
 laureate of our New America, with a voice that breaks heart, gives courage 
 and burns all illusions."\n-- Junot Díaz\n\n"Eloquent in his celebration 
 of those whose names and faces are 'rubbed off / by oblivion's thumb like a 
 Roman coin...' "\n-- Alicia Ostriker\n\n"[Espada] writes as if we don't 
 have that much time left."\n-- Richard Blanco\n\nTo register for event: 
 https: https://www.eventbrite.com/.../an-evening-with-martin...\n\nRB's 
 online events are co-sponsored by Revolution Books in Berkeley (4pm PDT) 
 and in Harlem (7pm EST)\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/16/18837591.php
SUMMARY:An Evening with Martín Espada - Poet of the Political Imagination
LOCATION:Online event sponsored by Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 
 94704
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/16/18837591.php
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