Podcast appearances and mentions of martin espada

Okay, Hannah's back, but that doesn't mean we're done with guest hosts! This week we're joined by author Nina MacLaughlin, editor of the brand-new New England Literary News newsletter, and we've got the Newburyport Literary Festival on the brain (oh, and sorry, Nina, about putting you on the spot various times, but we did enjoy, "there's just so much garbage being published"). And Indie Bookstore Day, too! But we talked about lots of books, as well, including: - "Jailbreak of Sparrows," by Martin Espada - a poet who will be a Newburyport, where we are selling books, BTW. - "Little Great Island," by Kate Woodworth - which has "Road to Dalton" vibes and a great cover (another Maine book, yes). - "Lobster," by Guillaume Lacasble - easily the weirdest book Sam has read in a while, with, yes, lobster sex. - "On the Calculation of Volume (Book II)," by Solvej Balle - a continuation of Book I, still awesome, but could have moved forward more. - "Sad Tiger," by Neige Sinno - a very heavy memoir that manages to still be quite beautiful. And make sure to stay to the very end for some great New England poet recommendations! 

Today on a special edition of the Show: National Book Award Winning poet, Martin Espada, reads from and talks about his powerful new collection of poetry Jailbreak of Sparrows.  Espada's longtime friend, attorney and flashpoints legal contributor Camilo Perez Bustillo will also join us for the hour The post Poet Martin Espada on His new Collection of Poetry: Jailbreak of Sparrows appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the Show: National Book Award Winning poet, Martin Espada, reads and speaks out on the Trump promise to deport a million brown and black people, forcibly if need be: also we'll look at Justice Robert Jackson's dissent in the Korematsu case regarding the brutal internment during World War Two of  thousands of Japanese Americans And  Israel's bloody genocide continues to target children and medical centers across gaza. Nora Barrows Friedman documents another week of the US armed violence and mass murder The post Award Winning Poet Martin Espada on Trump's Promise to Deport Millions appeared first on KPFA.

Today on a special edition of the show: National Book Award Winning poet, Martin Espada, helps us remember and recall the events of 9/11/That's 9-11-73, when the US overthrow of the duly elected socialist government of Salvador Allende sent tens of thousand of Chileans into exile. At least, the ones who were able and lucky enough to escape the brutal reign of General Augusto Pinnochet. And Camilo Perez Bustillo brings us up to speed on the battle for self determination that goes on right now in Chile and across the hemisphere. The post Award Winning Poet Martin Espada on 9/11…1973 appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the Show: National Book Award-winning poet Martin Espada, Author of The Floaters, speaks out against the latest crime against humanity on the Mexican side of the US Mexico Border. Also, our special correspondent for border and human rights violations, Camilo Perez, remembers the names of those who died in the flames as guards watched: And Flashpoints senior producer, Kevin Pina offers a retrospective on People's Park in Berkeley The post Poet Martin Espada on The Crimes Against Humanity at US/Mexico Border appeared first on KPFA.

Episode 153 Notes and Links to Luivette Resto's Work       On Episode 153 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes Luivette Resto, and the two discuss, among other topics, her childhood in Puerto Rico and the Bronx, her pride in her Puerto Ricanidad, Spanglish, formative reading and writing, mentors and inspirations like Helena Maria Viramontes, ideas of home and identity and inheritance that populate her poetry, and how form and family dynamics inform her work.       Luivette Resto, a mother, teacher, poet, and Wonder Woman fanatic, was born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico but proudly raised in the Bronx. She is a CantoMundo and Macondo Fellow, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She is on the Board of Directors for Women Who Submit, a non profit organization in Los Angeles focused on women and nonbinary writers. Some of her latest work can be read on Spillway, North American Review, and the latest anthology, Gathering. Her latest collection Living On Islands Not Found On Maps is  published by FlowerSong Press.  Her first two books of poetry Unfinished Portrait and Ascension have been published by Tía Chucha Press. Some of her latest work can be found in the anthology titled What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump edited by Martín Espada and on the University of Arizona's Poetry Center website. She lives in the San Gabriel Valley with her three children aka her revolutionaries. Buy Living on Islands Not Found on Maps   Luivette Resto's Website   “Becoming Guazabara: A Interview with Luivette Resto” by Ivelisse Rodríguez   Luivette Resto's Poetry Foundation Page     At about 7:50, Luivette gives background on her early and lasting connections to her birthplace of Puerto Rico and to the Bronx   At about 12:40, Luivette describes her growing understanding of hyphenated identities and being part of the “Nuyorican culture”   At about 16:45, Luivette lists some of the countless books she read as a kid   At about 19:10, Luivette looks back on the dearth of writers of color to whom she was exposed as a kid and high schooler    At about 20:15, Luivette describes Mrs. Quigley jostl[ing] some things” as Luivette    At about 21:00, Luivette describes the wonderful and creative leadership and mentorship provided by Helena Maria Viramontes    At about 22:40, Luivette cites Viramontes' leading Luivette to great Puerto Rican writers like Martin Espada and Judith Ortiz Cofer (Latin Deli)   At about 24:30, Luivette references a few words that are particular to Puerto Rico that Martin Espada uses in his work that thrilled her     At about 26:50, Pete tells the story about a banal and thrilling experience with Helena Maria Viramontes    At about 28:00, Luivette responds to Pete's questions about transformational moments along the way to becoming a writer-she cites Helena Maria Viramontes' influence    At about 31:50, Luivette shouts out Martin Espada (read Floaters!) and Pedro Pietri and as two of the many writers who inspire her   At about 35:00, Pete and Luivette talk about precision with words and discuss Luivette's philosophy on poetry and how she is a poet on a daily basis   At about 38:30, Luivette gives the seeds and background for her collection, which was “seven years in the making”   At about 41:15, The two discuss the continuity of the collection    At about 42:20, Luivette summarizes themes of Parts I and II in the collection and gives background on the process of splitting up the collection    At about 45:25, The two discuss the collection's opening poem and ideas of the poet as speaker and connections to the ocean and the protectoress, as well as the forms of pantoum and her “Didactic” poems    At about 50:40, Pete cites the masculine and feminine natures of the sea, as posed by Hemingway's Santiago   At about 51:45, Inheritance is explored through some early poems in the collection and real-life connections to Luivette's mother and grandmother   At about 57:55, Ideas of home and personality that come up in a few poems are referenced and discussed    At about 59:40, Pete compliments the “fresh spin” that Luivette puts on ideas of sexism and misogyny   At about 1:00:50, Luivette reads her poem “MILF”   At about 1:02:00, Luivette connects ideas of home and father-daughter relationships with some of her work   At about 1:04:00, Ideas of potential and hope and a lifesaving experience dramatized in Luivette's work are discussed    At about 1:05:35, Home and identity and languages as themes are discussed    At about 1:06:45, Luivette provides background on the writing of the title poem with help from Diana Marie Delgado   At about 1:10:00, Pete cites some standout lines from the collection's second part, especially those revolving around intimacy and love and loss   At about 1:12:20, Highlighting misogyny and ideas of the power of women as depicted in the poetry, Pete asks Luivette about the cool double-meaning of “coqueta”   At about 1:13:50, Luivette reads the title poem    You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.     Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl     Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. Thanks in advance for supporting my one-man show, my DIY podcast and my extensive reading, research, editing, and promoting to keep this independent podcast pumping out high-quality content!    This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form.    The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com.   Please tune in for Episode 154 with Ian MacAllen, the author of Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American. He is a writer, editor, and graphic designer living in Brooklyn. Pete can't wait to talk sauce and gravy and sugo.    The episode will air on November 29.

Episode 144 Notes and Links to Gustavo Barahona's Work        On Episode 144 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes Gustavo Barahona, and the two discuss, among other topics, ideas of Chicanismo, Nepantla, and how these affected his early reading and writing, as well as salient themes of grief, loss, masculinity, and borders, real and imagined. Pete is so thankful to Gustavo for opening up about grief in his poetry collection and in this conversation. Gustavo Barahona-López is a writer and educator from Richmond, California. He is the author of the poetry chapbook, "Loss and Other Rivers That Devour,” and in 2023 his debut full-length collection will be published by FlowerSong Press.    Buy Loss and Other Rivers That Devour   Gustavo Barahona on Twitter   From Luna Luna Magazine: “gustavo barahona-lopez: on poetry, masculinity, and heritage, an interview with gustavo barahona-lopez” by Lisa Marie Basile         At about 7:50, Gustavo talks about language and reading and writing and storytelling and its impact and iterations in his childhood   At about 10:50, Gustavo recounts his father's skill in and love for storytelling, and how Gustavo was shaped by this   At about 11:40, Gustavo describes his love for science fiction as a kid   At about 12:30, Gustavo talks about important his high school “Latino Literature” class was, and about meeting/hearing from Martin Espada and Jane Hirschfield     At about 13:20, Gustavo responds to Pete's question about the type of stories that his father would tell; Gustavo describes them as “epic”   At about 14:30, Gustavo plays arm-chair psychologist in explaining what drew him to fantasy/science fiction   At about 16:05, Pete asks Gustavo about ideas of representation in what he read growing up   At about 17:50, Gustavo cites work and writers that have given him “chills at will” throughout the years, including Aldurista's “Yo Soy Joaquin,” Gloria Andaluza, and Tomás Rivera, whose title inspired      At about 22:55, Pete asks Gustavo about contemporary writers who have inspired and shaped his work; Gustavo cites, among others, Eduardo Corral, Vanessa Angelica Villarreal, Alan Chazaro, Raina León, and Marcelo Hernández Castillo   At about 26:15, Pete and Gustavo discuss evolution as used in Gustavo's collection, and Gustavo responds to Pete's questions about the evolution of the meanings of “Chicano” in literature    At about 31:30, Pete references lines from Gustavo collections and ideas of Nepantla and biculturalism/bilingualism and Gustavo discusses his own writing and history with the ideas   At about 34:40, Gustavo points out a poem that he believes best worked (only worked?) in Spanish    At about 36:20, The two discuss ideas of masculinity and father-son relationships as themes while analyzing aspects of “Mi Padre: El Más Fuerte del Mundo” and Gustavo talks about being the son of such a big personality like his father and what has been and should be passed down to future generations    At about 40:20, the two discuss ideas of awe in relation to the “indomitable” father    At about 42:15, the two discuss ideas of grief as seen in Gustavo's work    At about 43:55, The two talk about masculinity as a repeated theme and how it comes out in various poem    At about 44:30, Pete looks to make a connection between Gustavo's poem “How to Make a Man” and Johnny Cash's “A Boy Named Sue”; Gustavo describes the writing process of “Mi Padre, El Más Fuerte del Mundo,” and how it was written after his father's cancer diagnosis   At about 45:30, Gustavo traces the evolution of his examination of his own childhood and its marking his views on masculinity    At about 51:15, Pete is enthralled by a line about apologizing from Gustavo's poem and asks him to describe its background   At about 54:15, Pete lays out the outline of Gustavo's collection    At about 56:00, Gustavo responds to Pete's questions about the meanings of “rivers” from the title of the collection    At about 57:15, Pete cites the “contradictions” and “in-betweens” of the poem's collections and reads from a poem about    At about 58:30, Pete points out an incredibly moving and apt line about those who feel grief and asks Gustavo if writing about grief was cathartic    At about 1:01:15, Gustavo discusses exciting upcoming projects   At about 1:02:25, Gustavo reads from and discusses his poem “Mi Padre, El Más Fuerte del Mundo”   At about 1:06:25, Gustavo reads from and discusses his poem “Foundation”     You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.  This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form. The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com. Please tune in for Episode 145 with Vanessa Bee, who is “a consumer protection lawyer with a freelancing habit.” She is “primarily interested in inequality, corporate power, the American Left, and Washington D.C.,” and she “also love[s] a good meandering essay.” Her experimental memoir, HOME BOUND: An Uprooted Daughter's Reflections on Belonging, will publish on October 11. The episode will air on October 11.  

Martín Espada chats with Andrew about his award winning book of poems, "Floaters."  Espada has published more than 20 books as poet, editor, essayist, and translator. His writing has received countless accolades, most recently the National Book Award for his book of poems, "Floaters." He has dedicated much of his career to the pursuit of social justice and his work gives voice to otherness, powerlessness, and poverty in moving, vivid poetry.

Preparing to Meltdown. Our free family music and book bash. I'll talk with well decorated authors JJK and Heidi Stemple and the creators of the Tumble Science Podcast for kids. Resurrecting an extinct bar with…a dinosaur. On saving The Drake and on what actually killed the dinosaurs. Poetry, pie and pugilism with National Book Award winning poet Martin Espada.

National Book Award winning poet Martin Espada reading his poetry and being welcome to his new Western Mass neighborhood. A rabid fox on Capitol Hill? And no its not the TV station. We'll hear all about it from Congressman Jim McGovern. Goat milk? We'll hear from a local goat farmer about the benefits of goat over cow. Getting your gently used books into the hands of the 3 in 5 kids in Springfield who don't have a single book in their home. And drinking Argentinian wines.

Episode 92 Notes and Links to Alan Chazaro's Work               On Episode 92 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes Alan Chazaro, poet, hip hop head, baller, and artist in the truest sense of the word. The two talk about Alan's childhood in the Bay Area, the importance of music and hip hop in his work, as well as ideas of identity, cross-culturalism, pochismo, and gentrification, among other topics. The two discuss Alan's eccentric and diverse interests in arts of all types, and the inspiration for, and themes behind, his prize-winning This a Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album and Piñata Theory.            After nine years as a public high school teacher in Louisiana, Massachusetts, and California, Alan Chazaro decided to pursue his creative writing more seriously and has been living as a freelance writer who travels and enjoys new cultures around the world. He's a San Francisco Bay Area local but also has been finalizing his paperwork as a Mexican dual-citizen, so he's jumping between both countries while he continues to write, edit, teach, and grow. In 2018, he graduated with his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco where he was a Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poetry Fellow, which is awarded to a writer “whose work embodies a concern for social justice and freedom of expression.” Previously, he attended Foothill Community College, and later UC Berkeley, where he participated in June Jordan's Poetry for the People program. He also got some game from Patricia Smith, among others, at the Voices Of Our Nations summer workshops. His first poetry collection, This Is Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album, was the winner of the 2018 Black River Chapbook Competition and his second, Piñata Theory, was given the 2018 Hudson Prize. They are both available with Black Lawrence Press. Currently, he's working as an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco, managing his online NBA zine HeadFake, moonlighting as an assistant poetry editor at AGNI Magazine, and raising money for NBA arena workers during COVID-19. For more info, find him on Twitter @alan_chazaro. Buy Alan Chazaro's Piñata Theory   Buy Alan Chazaro's This Is Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album   Pinata Theory: A Conversation with Alan Chazaro from The Adroit Journal   Review: This is Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album-done by José Hernández Diaz for Diode Poetry   Reviews: Identity as the Fractured Thing: Gustavo Barahona-López on Alan Chazaro's Piñata Theory-For Honey Literary Magazine   Buy Alan's Notes from the Eastern Span of the Bay Bridge At about 3:30, Alan talks about his upbringing in the California Bay Area and his family's story, as well as how gentrification has affected his city and neighborhood   At about 8:10, Alan talks about his relationship with language and reading in his adolescent years,  as well as his family's experiences with assimilation   At about 9:45, Alan talks about the importance of sports and stereotypically-masculine pursuits in his life and in his writing   At about 10:50, Alan talks about a overwhelmingly-positive influence from his surrogate grandfather in his exploration of literature and art   At about 14:30, Alan talks about Bay Area music and its influence on him and his work   At about 15:55, Pete comes with two hot Bay Area hip hop takes    At about 16:55, Pete asks Alan about his usage of “pocho,” such as its used in his Twitter handle   At about 18:00, Alan shouts out Sara Borjas for her work in reclaiming the term “pocho/pocha,” which inspired him and his work-Sara will be in conversation with Pete in a few weeks!   At about 19:15, Pete and Alan discuss the book Pocho by Villarreal   At about 20:00, Alan highlights some chill-inducing literature in high school and college after being “academically , and he responds to Pete's question about representation    At about 21:20, Alan talks about merging different art forms and knowledge in community college in conjunction with formative texts like those of Martin Espada and the music of Lateef the Truthspeaker   At about 23:25, Alan discusses his evolving understanding of how representation was tied to his reading and artistic development   At about 27:20, Alan talks about his contemporary reading habits and listening habits, including Oakland's Ovrkast. and Offset Jim   At about 29:10, Pete wonders about any “ ‘Eureka' moments” for Alan in his artistic endeavors   At about 30:20, Alan talks about his unique and varied experiences growing up melded into the book he wanted to write   At about 31:50, Alan talks about his musical output and how “being a person of words and ideation” found a natural fit in hip hop and poetry   At about 34:05, Pete drop bar(s)   At about 35:00, Alan lays out the timeline that led to the publishing of Frank Ocean and Piñata Theory   At about 36:50, Alan discusses  some “seeds” that led him to put his publishing ideas into action and shouts out The June Jordan Poetry for the People program    At about 39:20, Alan discusses some of his motivations    At about 40:25, Pete asks Alan about his views on form, titles, and themes/concepts in poetry   At about 44:20, Pete wonders about Alan's philosophy on language and translation in his work, and Alan gives background on his poem written solely in Spanish   At about 46:20, Alan discusses identity and cross-culture, as well as music's thread through his life, including different genres   At about 50:35, Pete highlights love in its many forms as shown in some of Alan's poems   At about 52:10, Pete and Alan discuss themes of “home” and identity and love and belonging in some of Alan's Piñata Theory   At about 54:30, Alan shouts out his incredible grandfather and his appearances in Alan's poetry   At about 57:10, Pete and Alan discuss father/son relationships and ideas of masculinity, as well how searching for poetry ideas and threads     At about 59:45, the two discuss Alan's poem about watching the 1996 Julio Cesar Chavez and Oscar De la Hoya fight and its ramifications and metaphors   At about 1:01:55, Pete and Alan discuss themes of innocence and youth in Alan's poetry, with Alan shouting out Outkast as one of his many muses   At about 1:04:40, Alan describes the poetry collection's title and its “many cores”   At about 1:08:45, Alan shouts out East Bay Booksellers, Walden Pond Books, Pegasus Books as some local indie stores to support You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.  This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form. The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com. Please tune in for the next episode, a conversation with Steph Cha. She is the author of Your House Will Pay, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the California Book Award, and the Juniper Song crime trilogy. She's a critic whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, where she served as noir editor, and is the current series editor of the Best American Mystery & Suspense anthology.  The episode will air on November 30.

I continue my late summer hiatus and now present a few programs that were the least listened to during the past two and a half years, with the hope that I might inspire some additional interest in them. My program today -- originally broadcast -- is the second program in which I focused on New England urban poets and the complex range of human issues unfolding in urban settings.  I read poems by Julia Alvarez, Ocean Vuong, Richard Wilbur, Martin Espada, and Maya Williams.

Poetic Resurrection is honored to present Pulitzer Prize finalist, Puerto Rican poet Martin Espada for an intimate and informative conversation. Martin reads his poem Letter to My Father from his book Floaters. We discuss the effects of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico, the people, and especially the town of his father's birth Utuado. We discussed historical events and perceptions of Puerto Rico and its people in this heartfelt interview. This episode contains some controversial views. Martín Espada has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist, and translator. His new book of poems from Norton is called Floaters. Other books of poems include Vivas to Those Who Have Failed (2016), The Trouble Ball (2011), The Republic of Poetry (2006), and Alabanza (2003). He is the editor of What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump (2019). He 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, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. The Republic of Poetry was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. 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, and reissued by Northwestern. A former tenant lawyer in Greater Boston, Espada is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. http://www.martinespada.net/ Frank Espada's gallery of work: https://www.thefrankespadagalleries.com/ Floaters link on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3C6R3fJ Pulitzer Prize-nominated book Republic of Poetry: https://amzn.to/3fgIu88 *Ruth Lilly Award: Awarded annually, the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize honors a living US poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition.       

This episode features Professor John Murillo and Luna Dragon Mac-Williams '22. In the first half of this episode, we hear Professor John Murillo read “Imagine the Angels of Bread” by Martin Espada. Professor Murillo is an Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, and Director of Creative Writing at Wesleyan. He is the author of the poetry collections, Up Jump the Boogie and Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry. His honors include a Pushcart Prize, the J Howard and Barbara MJ Wood Prize from the Poetry Foundation, and most recently, the $100,000 Kingsley-Tufts award for Contemporary Poetry. In the second half, Luna Mac-Williams reads “Guitar” by Patrick Rosal. Luna is a poet, playwright, actor, dancer, jeweler, and arts educator who roots her work in radical compassion and joy. She teaches theater, writing, and their intersection with activism through After School Matters in her hometown of Chicago. She is a current junior at Wesleyan majoring in Theater with a minor in Education Studies and the Writing Certificate. Thanks to Professor Murillo and Luna Mac-Williams for their appearances on this episode! The Words of Wesleyan is produced by the Shapiro Center for Writing at Wesleyan University. Host: Anna Tjeltveit Creators: Anna Tjeltveit, Amy Bloom, Stephanie Weiner Theme Music: "Let Me Make It Clear" by Wesleyan Professor of Music Jay Hoggard

Award winning poets Martin Espada and Lauren Marie Schmidt in the studio! Espada, is the 2018 Ruth Lilly Award winner - one of the most prestigious awards given to an American poet, Espada is the first Latino poet to win the award. Espada and Schmidt talk about their work, teaching, and how to use poetry to critically examine and talk about the world.

Happy New Year from the LHT team! 2020 was certainly a historic year, and here on the Labor History Today podcast the past and present kept colliding in interesting and unusual ways. Back in August, Quincy Mills, Professor of History at the University of Maryland in College Park talked with us about black barbers, the evolution of their trade, and its political meaning as a skilled form of labor.The show also featured poet Martin Espada reading his poem "Castles for the Laborers and Ballgames on the Radio," written for his friend, historian Howard Zinn. Here’s our show from August 30, 2020, updated with today’s Labor History in 2, "The Power of Folded Arms and Marching Feet."Produced by Chris Garlock; edited by Patrick Dixon. To contribute a labor history item, email laborhistorytoday@gmail.comLabor History Today is produced by the Metro Washington Council’s Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University. We're a proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network, more than 60 shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod

AirGo is excited to present The Notebook Suite, a series of conversations with writers about liberation, craft, and radical imagination. We kick the series off by chopping it up with brilliant poet and suite co-curator Nate Marshall. Author of poetry collections Finna and Wild Hundreds, Nate is a longtime friend of the show and professor at Colorado College. He shares what he's wrestling with in his writing right now, as well as some questions for us to ask the folks we're going to be talking with throughout the suite. SHOW NOTES Coffee and Books with Marc Lamont Hill - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coffee-and-books/id1522592619 The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America by June Jordan - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/68628/the-difficult-miracle-of-black-poetry-in-america Phyllis Wheatley - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/phillis-wheatley The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson - http://digitalemerson.wsulibs.wsu.edu/exhibits/show/text/the-american-scholar Jamila Woods - http://www.jamila-woods.com/ Sarah Kay - https://kaysarahsera.com/ Nina Simone on Freedom - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySYRI4wXUpo Imagine the Angels of Bread by Martin Espada - http://www.martinespada.net/uploads/6/9/9/8/69989673/imagine_the_angels_of_bread.pdf Buy Finna today! https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/610570/finna-by-nate-marshall/ Become an AirGo Amplifier - https://airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

BILINGUAL: ENGLISH/ESPAÑOL Manuel Frau Ramos, fundador y editor de El Sol Latino, y Natalia Muñoz de Holyoke Media, conversan en español e inglés con el reconocido autor, poeta y artista profesor de inglés en la Universidad of Massachusetts-Amherst, Martín Espada. La obra más reciente de Martín Espada es de editor de una antología, la cual el es el editor, que lleva el provocativo título "What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump." Publicado a finales del año pasado (October 15, 2019). Además, algo que ha sido muy importante, es que Martín ha sido un consistente aliado de El Sol Latino, como muy pocas personas lo ha sido. Martín Espada nació en Brooklyn, Nueva York en 1957. Ha publicado casi 20 libros como poeta, editor, ensayista y traductor. La antología reúne una extraordinaria diversidad de voces. Entre los 93 poetas incluidos en este proyecto se encuentran, Elizabeth Alexander, Julia Álvarez, Richard Blanco, Carolyn Forché, Aracelis Girmay, Donald Hall, Juan Felipe Herrera, Yusef Komunyakaa, Naomi Shihab Nye, Marge Piercy, Robert Pinsky, Danez Smith, Patricia Smith, Brian Turner, Ocean Vuong, Bruce Weigl, y Eleanor Wilner. Espada reciente publicó el 17 de julio de 2020 una poesía en revista digital 80grados.net dedicada al doctor en medicina y padre del movimiento independentista de Puerto Rico, Ramón Emeterio Betances. La poesía publicada en la "The Five Horses of Doctor Ramón Emeterio Betances" resalta las virtudes humanista. Esta obra esta acompañada con una introducción titulada, "Del Covid al cólera según Espada (y Betances)", escrita por el catedrático auxiliar en el Departamento de Español y Portugués de la Universidad de Texas en Austin, César A. Salgado. Puedes conocer más sobre el prolífico autor Martin Espada y su extensa obra literaria visitando su página hwww.martinespada.net. Y EN ESTOS SITIOS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/mespadapoet/status/1299361822751981569 FB: https://www.facebook.com/martinespadapoet/posts/249376860059783 IG: https://www.instagram.com/p/CEcAwvOhQGN/

Today on the Show: We'll spend the hour with Multi-award winning Latino Poet, editor and Essayist Martin Espada: We'll talk about politics and poetry and Martin will read from his powerful and timely new book of poems, Floaters The post Martin Espada's “Floaters” appeared first on KPFA.

Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100 by Martin Espada

EMTs, nurses, bus drivers, and supermarket clerks; they're all what are now known as essential workers. But by about June of this year, a lot of people were starting to argue that barbers provided an essential service that they had lived too long without. Quincy Mills, Professor of History at the University of Maryland in College Park, talks about black barbers, the evolution of their trade, and its political meaning as a skilled form of labor. Plus: poet Martin Espada reads his poem "Castles for the Laborers and Ballgames on the Radio," written for his friend, historian Howard Zinn. This week’s Labor History in 2: The Amistad. Produced by Chris Garlock; edited by Patrick Dixon. To contribute a labor history item, email laborhistorytoday@gmail.comLabor History Today is produced by the Metro Washington Council’s Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University. We're a proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network, more than 60 shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod

When Alice asks the Cheshire Cat which way she ought to go, the Cat responds, “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.” Alice says she doesn’t much care where she goes, to which the Cat says, “Then it doesn’t much matter which way you go.” We spend this episode exploring our radical dreams, and imagining where we’d like to go, accompanied by the music words of the radical poet, Martin Espada, and a conversation with the legendary activist, Bernardine Dohrn.

The Sign in My Father's Hands by Martin Espada

Carl Phillips was teaching Latin to high school students when a poet changed his life. Phillips had long been an avid reader and wrote poems casually, but he never conceived of poetry as a career path. The poet Martin Espada visited the school where he worked and led a workshop for faculty. He saw what Phillips wrote in an exercise and suggested he apply for a state grant. He got the grant. Then he won a poetry contest that led to publication of his first collection, “In The Blood,” in 1992. The next year he secured a position on the faculty at Washington University, where he remains a professor of English and leads a workshop in the graduate creative writing program. Many awards and honors later, Phillips published his 15th poetry collection in March this year.

My program today is the second program to focus on New England urban poets and the complex range of human issues unfolding in urban settings. I read poems by Julia Alvarez, Ocean Vuong, Richard Wilbur, Martin Espada, and Maya Williams.

This will be our second visit with the renowned poet of the Puerto Rican diaspora – Martin Espada - and with his partner and wife, Lauren Schmidt -- poet, writer, teacher and worker in the field of the socially oppressed. Rebecca McKean and Chris Brandt and I – Alan Winson—spoke with Lauren and Martin on Bar Crawl Radio – Episode #88. For this Hunkered Down Podcast we found the couple cozied together in their home in Shutesbury, Massachusetts with their Pomeranian – Fenrir – named after the giant wolf that ate Norse gods. You can hear her panting in this recording.We spoke about their lives in the wilds with bears and gigantic sink holes -- and they shared their concerns and worries and hopes about our Pandemic Times. Martin reads a soon-to-be published poem from his book “Floaters” -- a love poem to his wife. A poem that resonates with much broader ideas of freedom and bravery and positive opposition to entrenched power – about Chilean Victor Jara – poet, theatre director, and political activist who was tortured and killed during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet – “That We Will Sing” Lauren reads a poem of oneness -- filled with palpable imagery by Marge Piercy –“The Art of a Blessed Day.” See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

OK -- sit down -- calm your busy mind -- and get ready to listen to two amazing poets read and talk about their work. Martin Espada is a world-renowned poet; he tells the stories of the Puerto Rican diaspora experience. Lauren Schmidt's poems live on the ground -- and are raw and brave, exposing the sacred lives of the oppressed and the unspoken secrets of familial love. And -- Lauren and Martin are married; this is the first time they talk about how their work and relationship mesh. Readings include selections from Lauren's recent publication Filthy Labors and several of Espada's most endearing works, including -- "Heal the Cracks in the Bell" -- and -- "Alabanza." This BCR episode concludes with this loving couple reading a favorite poem of the other. No kidding -- this is a treat!BCR #89 was recorded on the Porch at Gebhard's Beer Culture Bar.Let Becky and Alan know what you think of BCR programming at barcrawlradio@gmail.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today On Flashpoints: Rebellion in Chile. We'll feature a live report on the ground and a report on deep unrest and forced migrations across the western hemisphere. Also we'll be joined by a human rights and legal migration expert working on the front lines. We'll also hear from award winning Latno poet, Martin Espada. The post A Flashpoints Special: Rebellion in Chile appeared first on KPFA.

Today on Boston Public Radio: Steve Kerrigan, CEO of the Edward M Kennedy Community Health Center, and Jennifer Horn, former chair of the New Hampshire Republican party, joined us for a political roundtable. They discussed Joe Kennedy III's bid for Ed Markey's senate seat, a whistleblower complaint lodged against President Donald Trump, and other political headlines. WGBH News Analyst Charlie Sennott delved further into the recent whistleblower complaint against Trump. The Trump administration has thus far refused to release any information about the complaint, but media reports indicate it is related to a conversation Trump had with Ukraine. We opened the lines to hear from listeners about their views on impeaching President Donald Trump. TV critic Bob Thompson recapped the Emmys and reviewed Netflix's latest police procedural, Criminal. Reverends Irene Monroe and and Emmett G. Price III joined us to discuss the Rhode Island Diocese's failure to protect parishioners from a predatory priest. WGBH Science Correspondent Heather Goldstone gave us an update from climate action summits in New York. Inaugural poet Richard Blanco highlighted the anthology “What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump,” Edited by Martin Espada.

Martin Espada is a Puerto Rican poet of massive strength and vitality charting the Puerto Rican experience in America with powerful poems.

Exploring the work of the 2018 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize winner Martín Espada.

Our participation in the Festival Quartier du Livre continues with a night of poetry with two of the most powerful poets of the day, “the Pablo Neruda of North American poets” Martin Espada and New Zealand native Andrew Johnston.

Please join Melissa Studdard and Tiferet Journal on 7/29/13, from 7-7:30 PM EST, 6-6:30 PM CST, for a conversation with award-winning poet, memoirist, playwright, and professor, Doug Anderson.  Anderson is the author of the poetry collections, The Moon Reflected Fire and Blues for Unemployed Secret Police, as well as the play, Short Timers, and the memoir, Keep Your Head Down: Vietnam, the Sixties, and a Journey of Self-Discovery. His awards include a Pushcart Prize and a Kate Tufts Discovery Award, in addition to grants and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Poets & Writers, National Endowment for the Arts, and the MacDowell Colony. Anderson currently teaches for Smith College, Emerson College, and the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Its Social Consequences at the University of Massachusetts. His work has appeared in Ploughshares,the Connecticut Review, The Massachusetts Review, Virginia Quarterly, The Southern Review, Field,The Autumn House Anthology of American Poetry, and Contemporary American War Poetry. Of Anderson’s work, Martin Espada states, “He is one of the bravest poets I know, utterly uncompromising. His language brims with compassion, rage, tenderness and pain … Anderson is cursed and blessed with memory, and his considerable poetic gift assures that we won’t forget, either.” Tiferet Journal has recently published a compilation of twelve of our best transcribed interviews. To purchase The Tiferet Talk Interviews book, please click here.

The Yes Men - aka Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum - who discovered that pranks could get press attention to important issues that would otherwise be ignored. Also on the program, renowned poet Martin Espada speaks about his love of language and the human need for poetry as he reflects on how heritage and immigration, and violence and war, have influenced his work.