{"id":288,"date":"2026-02-22T12:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/?p=288"},"modified":"2026-02-26T18:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:24:23","slug":"an-evening-with-martin-espada-ucsb-campbell-hall-april-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/an-evening-with-martin-espada-ucsb-campbell-hall-april-29\/","title":{"rendered":"An Evening with Mart\u00edn Espada, UCSB Campbell Hall, April 29"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"786\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Martin-Espada-Author-Photo-2021-Credit-Lauren-Marie-Schmidt-scaled-e1745332003259-786x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-289\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Martin-Espada-Author-Photo-2021-Credit-Lauren-Marie-Schmidt-scaled-e1745332003259-786x1024.jpg 786w, http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Martin-Espada-Author-Photo-2021-Credit-Lauren-Marie-Schmidt-scaled-e1745332003259-230x300.jpg 230w, http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Martin-Espada-Author-Photo-2021-Credit-Lauren-Marie-Schmidt-scaled-e1745332003259-768x1001.jpg 768w, http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Martin-Espada-Author-Photo-2021-Credit-Lauren-Marie-Schmidt-scaled-e1745332003259-1178x1536.jpg 1178w, http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Martin-Espada-Author-Photo-2021-Credit-Lauren-Marie-Schmidt-scaled-e1745332003259.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 786px) 100vw, 786px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry for Floaters, and the only Puerto Rican winner since William Carlos Williams, Mart\u00edn Espada is one of America\u2019s most impassioned and urgent advocates. He writes with clarity about inequality, labor and migration, honoring the dignity of working people, especially in his own Puerto Rican community. His most recent collection,&nbsp;<em>Jailbreak of Sparrows<\/em>, confronts injustice with unflinching power and reaffirms poetry\u2019s ability to bear witness. A former tenant lawyer with Su Cl\u00ednica Legal in Greater Boston, Espada continues to bring the struggles and resilience of working people to the page. Join us for an evening of readings and commentary by one of America\u2019s most vital literary voices, whose words transform resistance and compassion into unforgettable art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Books will be available for purchase, courtesy of Chaucer&#8217;s Books, and a signing follows the event<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UCSB Arts &amp; Lectures, UCSB Campbell Hall, April 29, 7:30 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>General Public $20, UCSB Student Free (current studentID required) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artsandlectures.ucsb.edu\/buy\/?performanceId=5540\">Get Tickets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An evening with National Book Award-winning poet Mart\u00edn Espada, presented by UCSB Arts &#038; Lectures, Wed., April 29, 7:30 pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ucsb","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sbpoetry.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}