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DESCRIPTION:Thursday, March 11, 6-7:30pm Pacific time\n\nKPFA Radio 94.1 FM 
 presents:\n\nPoets Martin Espada & Dennis Bernstein: A Zoom 
 Event\nFloaters\n\nMARTIN ESPADA, a poet who stirs our social 
 consciousness,  has published twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist and 
 translator, including Vivas To Those Who Have Failed and Pulitzer Prize 
 finalist The Republic of Poetry. \n\nHis latest book, Floaters, offers 
 exuberant odes and defiant elegies, songs of protest and songs of love.  
 The title is a term used by some Border Patrol agents to describe migrants 
 who drown trying to cross over the border.  Espada bears eloquent witness 
 to  confrontations with anti-immigrant bigotry. He also knows that times of 
 hate call for poems of love. Whether celebrating the visionaries - the 
 fallen dreamers, rebels, and poets - or condemning the outrageous 
 governmental neglect of his father's Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane 
 Maria, Espada invokes ferocious, incandescent spirits. \n\nDENNIS BERNSTEIN 
 , a poet and investigative journalist, is the producer of Flashpoints 
 (heard weekdays at 5pm on KPFA Radio 94.1 FM. His political essays have 
 appeared in numerous newspapers, magazines and websites. His latest book of 
 poems is Five Oceans in a Teaspoon, with typographic visualizations by 
 Warren Lehrer. The poems in it reflect the struggle of everyday people 
 trying to survive in the face of adversity. It spans a single lifetime: 
 from growing up confused by dyslexia to becoming a frontline witness to war 
 and its aftermath, to prison, street life, poverty, love and loss, to open 
 heart surgery. Five Oceans in a Teaspoon speaks to the madness, 
 vulnerability, aspiration and language of our time. The raw emotion of the 
 writing has a freshness rarely encountered.  The book was a winner for 
 Poetry in the 2020 Best Book Awards/American Book Fest, and a finalist in 
 the International Book award for Poetry.\n\nSuggested Donation $1-$20.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/02/10/18839949.php
SUMMARY:Poets Martin Espada & Dennis Bernstein: A Zoom Event: Floaters
LOCATION:Online webinar
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/02/10/18839949.php
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