Martín Espada

Called“the Latino poet of his generation” and “the Pablo Neruda of North American authors,” Martín Espada was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957. He has published seventeen books in all as a poet, editor, essayist and translator The Republic of Poetry, a collection of poems published by Norton in 2006, received the Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His new collection, The Trouble Ball, has just been published been published by Norton in 2011. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the American Book Award, the Robert Creeley Award, the National Hispanic Cultural Center Literary Award, the USA/Simon Fellowship, the PEN/Revson Fellowship and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.