Seavey Visiting Writers Series: Martin Espada

Martín Espada has published nearly 20 books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator. His latest collection of poems is Vivas to Those Who Have Failed (Norton, 2016). His many honors include the 2018 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, the Robert Creeley Award, the National Hispanic Cultural Center Literary Award, an American Book Award, the PEN/ Revson Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Espada is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst.