Background
Martín Espada was born in 1957 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. He is the son of Frank Espada, a leader in the Puerto Rican community and the civil rights movement.
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Martín Espada was born in 1957 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. He is the son of Frank Espada, a leader in the Puerto Rican community and the civil rights movement.
Espada received a Bachelor of Arts in history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a Juris Doctor from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.
For many years, Martín worked as a tenant lawyer and a supervisor of a legal services program. He also was an English instructor in University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
In 1982, Espada published his first book of political poems, "The Immigrant Iceboy's Bolero", featuring photography by his father.
In 2009, Espada performed in "The People Speak" a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States."
Martín Espada lives in Amherst, Massachusetts with his wife Katherine Gilbert Espada and his son Klemente Gilbert-Espada.
