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Martín Espada
Martín Espada (born 1957) is a Latino poet, and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he teaches poetry. Puerto Rico has frequently been featured as a theme in his poems.〔(Academy of American Poets profile )〕
== Life and career ==
Espada was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was introduced to political activism at an early age by his father, a leader in the Puerto Rican community and the civil rights movement. Espada received a B.A. in history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a J.D. from Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts). For many years, he worked as a tenant lawyer and a supervisor of a legal services program. In 1982, Espada published his first book of political poems, ''The Immigrant Iceboy's Bolero'', featuring photography by his father. This was followed by ''Trumpets from the Islands of their Eviction'' (1987) and ''Rebellion is the Circle of a Lover's Hands''.〔(Poetry Foundation profile )〕 In 2001, he was named the first Poet Laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts.〔(Bill Moyers website )〕
In 2009, Espada performed in ''The People Speak'' a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's ''A People's History of the United States''.〔(''The People Speak'' )〕
Martín Espada lives in Amherst, Massachusetts with his wife Katherine Gilbert Espada and his son Klemente Gilbert-Espada.
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