Join The Care Center for a reading with Martín Espada. This event is free & open to the community.
Monday, November 24, 2025
1pm - 2pm
Wistariahurst Museum
238 Cabot Street
Holyoke MA 01040
Martín Espada has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist, and translator. His new book of poems is called Jailbreak of Sparrows. His previous book, Floaters, won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2021. Other poetry collections include Vivas to Those Who Have Failed, The Trouble Ball, The Republic of Poetry, Alabanza, and Imagine the Angels of Bread. He is the editor of What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump. A former tenant lawyer with Su Clínica Legal in Greater Boston, Espada is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Jailbreak of Sparrows is a collection of arresting poems that roots itself in the image, the musicality of language, and the depth of human experience. “Look at this, was all he said, and all he had to say,” the poet says about his father, a photographer who documented his Puerto Rican community, in Brooklyn and beyond. The poems of Martín Espada tell us: Look.
Contact: Sara Rauch, Poetry Program Coordinator
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