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Sunday, May 16 • 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Headline Reading with Jos Charles and Martín Espada, sponsored by The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival

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Please join us for the final event of the Festival, featuring Jos Charles and Martín Espada, with an opening reading by U18* poet Gabriel McCreath.  

Link to recording: https://salemstate.zoom.us/rec/share/5-oVUvms9TExBs6MGS8QWrZEUgyCzIetKqakJfE3cWEl0KOTT4HA3jwh4iz4vi3m.uoSOY9iktbyc9mkv?startTime=1621195217000

Jos Charles is the author of feeld (Milkweed Editions, 2018), a Pulitzer-finalist and winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series selected by Fady Joudah, and Safe Space (Ahsahta Press, 2016). In 2016 she received the Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship through the Poetry Foundation. Jos Charles has an MFA from the University of Arizona. She is a Ph.D. student at UC Irvine and currently resides in Long Beach, CA.

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. Learn more at martinespada.net.

*U18 was a special edition of MassPoetry's U35 reading series for young poets. Visit Mass Poetry's website for more about the series.


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Jos Charles

Jos Charles is author of feeld, a Pulitzer-finalist and winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series selected by Fady Joudah (Milkweed Editions); and Safe Space (Ahsahta Press). In 2016 she received the Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship through the Poetry Foundation... Read More →
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Martín Espada

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... Read More →
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Gabriel McCreath

Gabriel McCreath (he/him, xe/xem) is a senior at Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall high school in Waltham, MA. He has been published in Typishly online magazine, and received two Gold Keys in the 2021 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for his Selected Poems and flash fiction piece, "Ordo... Read More →


Sunday May 16, 2021 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
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