Biography of martin espada
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Martín Espada
Puerto Rican poet
Martín Espada (born 1957) is a Puerto Rican-American poet,[1][2] and a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he teaches poetry.
Biography of martin espada
Puerto Rico has frequently been featured as a theme in his poems.[3]
Life and career
Espada was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was introduced to political activism at an early age by his father, Frank Espada, a leader in the Puerto Rican community and the civil rights movement.[4] 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[1] 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