Puerto Rican poet to speak tomorrow

By By Neil Mulka

Thursday, March 10, 2005

University of Kansas students can see life through the eyes of a Puerto Rican living in America tomorrow. Poet Martin Espada will read poems from his latest book, “Alabanza: New and Selected Poems (1982-2002),” at 7:30 tomorrow night at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union. Students in American studies typically read and enjoy his poetry, said Robert Vodicka, Lawrence doctorate student.

“There’s a lot of students that say they hate poetry,” Vodicka said. “But they say they like Espada’s poems.”

Espada said he wanted to write poetry that coincided with social justice. He said many of his poems were inspired by his experiences as a bouncer and a tenant lawyer. This will be the second time that Espada will read his poetry in Kansas. He read his poetry at Kansas State University about 10 years ago.

According to his Web site, www.martinespada.net, Espada has published seven collections of poetry and his poems have been published in The New York Times Book Review, Harper’s Bazaar, The Nation and The Best American Poetry.

Espada is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

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