On Nov. 2 at 7pm, esteemed poet and activist Martín Espada will present a poetry reading at Cabrini University.
All are welcome to attend this free event in the Iadarola Lecture Hall.
Called “the Pablo Neruda of North American authors” by Sandra Cisneros, Martín Espada published his latest collection of poems in 2016, Vivas to Those Who Have Failed (2016). Other books of poems include The Trouble Ball (2011), The Republic of Poetry (2006), Alabanza (2003), Imagine the Angels of Bread (1996), and Rebellion is the Circle of a Lover’s Hands (1990). He has received the Shelley Memorial Award, the Robert Creeley Award, the National Hispanic Cultural Center Literary Award, the PEN/Revson Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. The Republic of Poetry was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Espada’s reading is presented as part of the national FUSE (Forum for Undergraduate Student Editors) and is free thanks to the generous support of the Department of English, Academic Affairs, Black Student Union, Office of Student Life, Pura Vida, and Live Poets.