Reading with Martín Espada, part of the Lane Lecture Series

The Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce the next event in the Lane Lecture Series: A Reading with Martín Espada.

This event is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Registration is encouraged but not required. Register here

Martín Espada has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist, and translator. His latest book of poems is called Jailbreak of Sparrows (2025). His previous book, Floaters, won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2021. He is the editor of What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump (2019). Espada has received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, the PEN/Revson Fellowship, a Letras Boricuas Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His book of essays and poems, Zapata’s Disciple (1998), was banned in Tucson as part of the Mexican-American Studies Program outlawed by the state of Arizona. A former tenant lawyer in Greater Boston, Espada is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.