Martín Espada reads Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBzGxMgOpmU

Video courtesy of Traprock Peace Center

Martín Espada — poet, essayist, editor and translator — reads his poem “Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100” on May 1, 2006 at Amherst Common, MA. The rally held there was part of the National Boycott for Immigrant Rights.

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Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper (by Martín Espada) – video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoStWrp5lKM

Video courtesy of PoetryEverywherePTV

Martín Espada reads his poem “Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper” as part of the Poetry Everywhere project airing on public television — produced by David Grubin Productions and WGBH Boston, in association with the Poetry Foundation, and filmed at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/poetryeverywhere.

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