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Today's poem is "Love is a Luminous Insect at the Window"

from North American Review

Martín Espada has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator. His new book of poems is called Floaters (2021). Other collections of poems include Vivas to Those Who Have Failed (2016), The Trouble Ball (2011), and Alabanza (2003) He is the editor of What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump (2019). His honors include the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, an Academy of American Poets Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. A former tenant lawyer, Espada is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Books by Martín Espada:

Other poems on the web by Martín Espada:
Sixteen poems
Nine poems
"The Sinking of The San Jacinto"
Five poems
Two poems

Martín Espada's Website.

Martín Espada According to Wikipedia.

Martín Espada on Twitter.

About North American Review:

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Editors: Grant Tracey * Brooke Wonders * J. D. Schraffenberger * Rachel Morgan * Emily Stowe * Gary Kelley

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