Martin Espada and Adela Najarro

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Martin Espada was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957. He has published more than fifteen books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator. His latest collection of poems, The Trouble Ball, is the recipient of the Milt Kessler Award, a Massachusetts Book Award and an International Latino Book Award. His previous book of poems, The Republic of Poetry, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He has also received an American Book Award, the Shelley Memorial Award, the PEN/Revson Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. The title poem of his collection, Alabanza, about 9/11, has been widely anthologized and performed. His book of essays, Zapata's Disciple, has been banned in Tucson as part of the Mexican-American Studies Program outlawed by the state of Arizona. A former tenant lawyer in Greater Boston's Latino community, Espada is currently a professor in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Adela Najarro's poetry has appeared in numerous journals and can be found in the University of Arizona Press anthology The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry. She chairs the Cabrillo College English Department and is on the board of directors for Poetry Santa Cruz. As her poems show, at times she includes Spanish as part of her poetic voice. Her family immigrated to the US from Nicaragua in the 1940's and '50's, and she was raised bilingually; her poems, though English dominant, have found space for a duality of languages and linguistic expression. She holds a doctorate in literature and creative writing from Western Michigan University, as well as an M.F.A. from Vermont College. She has published poems in numerous journals, including Puerto del Sol, Feminist Studies, Notre Dame Review, Nimrod International Journal of Poetry & Prose, Blue Mesa Review, Crab Orchard Review, ACM: Another Chicago Magazine, and elsewhere. She now calls Santa Cruz home.

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