{"id":26588,"date":"2010-03-30T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T22:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/martin-espada-poetry-reading-and-discussion\/"},"modified":"2024-09-26T10:54:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T16:54:45","slug":"martin-espada-poetry-reading-and-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/martin-espada-poetry-reading-and-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Mart\u00edn Espada | Poetry reading and discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cultural Event Opportunity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The University of Denver (DU) Latino Center for Community Engagement and Scholarship (DULCCES) proudly presents<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mart\u00edn Espada<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, April 8, 2010<br \/> 7:00 pm &#8211; Reading &amp; Discussion, Reception to follow.<br \/> Craig Hall Community Room,University of Denver<br \/> 2148 South High Street, Denver, Colorado<br \/> FREE &amp; Open to the Public<\/p>\n<p>Called \u201cthe Pablo Neruda of North American authors,\u201d Puerto Rican poet from New York Mart\u00edn Espada has published seventeen books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator.  His poetry emerges from a life devoted to honing the powerof the word in the belief that \u201cPoets have always embraced and articulated a \u2018culture of conscience.\u2019\u201d Whether he writes about the experience of the immigrant, the war veteran, dictatorship, human rights, or the everyday life of a woman in New York, his poetry is a dialogue within and across national and transnational realities. His collection <em>The Republic of Poetry <\/em> received the Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His poems have appeared in the <em>The New York, The New York Times Book Review, Harper\u2019s, The Nation and The Best American Poetry <\/em>and have been translated into ten languages.<\/p>\n<p>More information on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinespada.net\/\">Mart\u00edn Espada is available on his website<\/a> and at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/archive\/poet.html?id=81893\">The Poetry Foundation website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cultural Event Opportunity The University of Denver (DU) Latino Center for Community Engagement and Scholarship (DULCCES) proudly presents Mart\u00edn Espada Thursday, April 8, 2010 7:00 pm &#8211; Reading &amp; Discussion, Reception to follow. Craig Hall Community Room,University of Denver 2148 South High Street, Denver, Colorado FREE &amp; Open to the Public Called \u201cthe Pablo Neruda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2082],"tags":[101,798,377,1223,358,113,779,609,1487,233,40,2004,1478],"class_list":["post-26588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tumblr-archive","tag-art","tag-beauty","tag-colorado","tag-cultural-event","tag-culture","tag-denver","tag-emad","tag-literature","tag-martin-espada","tag-poetry","tag-teaching","tag-teaching-tumblr","tag-university-of-denver"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6UQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45366,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26588\/revisions\/45366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}