posted 10/17/09 02:49 PM | updated 10/19/09 09:53 AM
Martín Espada @ Seattle Arts and Lectures
| When: | Friday, October 23, 2009 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM |
| Where: | Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle |
| What: | Brooklyn's Martín Espada has sixteen books to his credit as a poet, essayist, and translator. The Republic of Poetry, a 2006 collection of his poems, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Here is his advice to young poets, and here is the definitive profile. He's a working-class poet who teaches at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, a social-consciousness-raiser, and the self-proclaimed inventor of the "all-pork diet." Tickets: $20-$50/$10 students. |
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