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Not Here

Not Here Not Here for Raul Zurita Santiago, Chile, July 2004 The other poets tell me he tried to blind himself, taped his eyelids and...
Progressive, The, 09/01/05 by Martin Espada · More from publication
Searching for La Revolucion in the streets of Tijuana - Poem

Searching for La Revolucion in the Streets of Tijuana Searching for La Revolucion in the Streets of Tijuana --for Leroy Quintana We began by...
Progressive, The, 10/01/02 by Martin Espada · More from publication
Alabanza: in praise of local 100. (Articles).(Poem)

For the 43 members of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Local 100, working at the Windows on the World restaurant, who lost their lives in...
Nation, The, 09/23/02 by Espada, Martin · More from publication
Parole Hearing - Poem

--for Ben --for Ben After three hours of interrogation by the parole board, and the prisoner repeating I did not do this thing, his...
Progressive, The, 08/01/01 by Martin Espada · More from publication
!Viva Vieques!

More than eighty years ago, Puerto Rican poet and political leader Jose de Diego, wrote, "Puerto Ricans do not know how to say no." And yet, he...
Progressive, The, 07/01/00 by Martin Espada · More from publication
My Father as a Guitar - Poem

The cardiologist prescribed The cardiologist prescribed a new medication and lectured my father that he had to stop working. And my...
Progressive, The, 03/01/00 by Martin Espada · More from publication

All things censored - National Public Radio program allegedly censored a poem - Cover Story

The NPR news program "All Things Considered" commissioned a poet to write a poem for National Poetry Month in Apr 1997, but when he produced a poem...
Progressive, The, 07/01/97 by Martin Espada · More from publication
Another nameless prostitute says the man is innocent - poem - Cover Story

--for Mumia Abu-Jamal, Philadelphia, PA/Camden, NJ, April 1997 --for Mumia Abu-Jamal, Philadelphia, PA/Camden, NJ, April 1997 The...
Progressive, The, 07/01/97 by Martin Espada · More from publication
The foreman's wallet.(poem)

At the printing plant, I operated the machine that shrink-wrapped paper in clear plastic. The bosses were Jehovah's Witnesses, ...
Harper's Magazine, 05/01/96 by Espada, Martin · More from publication
Sleeping on the bus - poem

How we drift in the twilight of bus stations, how we shrink in overcoats as we sit, how we wait for the loudspeaker to tell us when the bus is...
Progressive, The, 11/01/95 by Martin Espada · More from publication