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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 21, Issue 1)At Scot Gas, Darnestown Road, the high school boys pumping gas would snicker at the rednecks. Every Saturday night there was Earl, puckering his liquor-smashed face to announce that he was driving across the bridge, a...
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 19, Issue 1)At sixteen, I worked after high school hours at a printing plant that manufactured legal pads: Yellow paper stacked seven feet high and leaning as I slipped cardboard between the pages, then brushed red glue up and down...
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 22, Issue 1)"Mrs. Lopez refuses to pay rent, and we want her out," the landlord's lawyer said, tugging at his law school ring. The judge called for an interpreter, but all the interpreters were gone, trafficking...
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 23, Issue 1)This was the first Thanksgiving with my wife's family, sitting at the stained pine table in the dining room. The wood stove coughed during her mother's prayer: Amen and the gravy boat bobbing over fresh linen. Her father...
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 31, Issue 1)I began editing this issue of Ploughshares in the summer of 2004, shortly after my return from Chile, where I was invited, with Yusef Komunyakaa and Nathalie Handal, to participate in the celebration of the Neruda...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 86, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedPoet-lawyer Martín Espada traces the history of advocacy in U.S. poetry from Walt Whitman to the Bronx, by way of Edgar Lee Masters. In Espada's own poems, we hear the voices of immigrants, tenants terrorized by their...
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From: Poets & Writers[(interview date March-April 1995) In the following interview, Espada and Gunderson discuss Espada's development as a poet and his commitment to social activism and political poetry.] Behind a small table in the...
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From: Bloomsbury Review[(interview date April 1997) In the following interview, conducted in April 1997, Espada and González discuss the mix of personal experiences and political events that inform Espada's poetry.] Martín Espada is a writer...
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From: Giving Their Word: Conversations with Contemporary Poets[(interview date 2002) In the following interview, Espada and Ratiner discuss the political nature of Espada's poetry.] Hunched over the podium, Martín Espada is an imposing presence, a grizzly bear of a man with dark...
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From: Mulicultural Review[(interview date 20 March 2003) In the following interview, conducted on March 20, 2003, Espada, Crohan, and Miller-Lachmann discuss Espada's poetry collection Alabanza: New and Selected Poems, 1982-2002, as well as his...
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From: Imagine the Angels of Bread[(essay date 1996) In “Imagine the Angels of Bread,” Espada underscores the importance of poetry as an integral part of the political imagination as he upends long-held hierarchical power structures. The poem functions...