Martin Espada with John Nichols, 3 October 2007 – Audio

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 3, 2007.

Martin Espada, called “the Pablo Neruda of North American authors” by Sandra Cisneros, has published thirteen books as a poet, essayist, editor and translator. Of his most recent collection of poems, The Republic of Poetry, Samuel Hazo writes: “Espada unites in these poems the fierce allegiances of Latin American poetry to freedom and glory with the democratic tradition of Whitman, and the result is poetry of fire and passionate intelligence.” His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Harper’s, The Nation, and The Best American Poetry.