Martín Espada
Martín Espada’s many books of poems include Floaters (forthcoming 2021), Vivas to Those Who Have Failed (2016), The Trouble Ball (2011), The Republic of Poetry (2006) and Alabanza (2003). He has received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, an Academy of American Poets Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. A former tenant lawyer, he now is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.