-SESSION CANCELED-POETRY with MARTÍN ESPADA

2:15 pm - 3:00 pm
| Location of Session: Russell Hill Rogers Tent
Adult Sessions

Start of Signing: 3:15 pm
| Signing Location: Festival Marketplace

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About the Event

THIS SESSION HAS BEEN CANCELLED

National Book Award Winner Martín Espada joins us at the San Antonio Book Festival with his new collection of poems, Jailbreak of Sparrows. Espada is a captivating storyteller and memoirist, and this will be a memorable and meaningful conversation!

About the Author

Photo Credit: Lauren Marie Schmidt

Martín Espada

Martín Espada has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist, and translator, including Floaters, winner of the National Book Award, Vivas to Those Who Have Failed, and The Republic of Poetry, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His many honors include the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Born in Brooklyn, he now lives in western Massachusetts. His latest book of poetry is Jailbreak of Sparrows.

Moderator

Laurie Ann Guerrero

Laurie Ann Guerrero, born and raised in the Southside of San Antonio, is the author of four collections: Babies under the Skin, A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying, A Crown for Gumecindo, and I Have Eaten the Rattlesnake: New & Selected. Former Poet Laureate of the city of San Antonio (2014-2014) and the state of Texas (2016-2017), she is an Associate Professor and the Writer-in-Residence at Texas A&M University-San Antonio.