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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