**Registration is required by the end of the day on Mon, Mar. 14. Your RSVP will register you for the talk as well as the reading.

We will email the Zoom link to virtual registrants on the morning of the event.

Please note during ticket selection that the in-person event is open to the public, but that anyone from outside the Emerson community will need to email wlpevents@emerson.edu with their ID information in order to be registered in our visitor’s system. They will also need to fill out a vaccine attestation: https://workflow.emerson.edu/Runtime/Runtime/Form/COVID+Visitor+Registration.Form/

Under hostname and email on the form, please use Kim Costigan (kim_costigan@emerson.edu)

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Join us for a hybrid Q&A, Reading, and Signing with Martín Espada on Tuesday, March 15 at 7 pm ET. Moderated by TBD.

After a short break, reading will follow at 8 pm ET.

Free and open to the public online. Alumni and friends of Emerson, please join us. Please note that the reading will be recorded for archival purposes and streamed to Facebook Live (WLP Town Crier).

Order Martín’s titles from Porter Square Books: https://www.portersquarebooks.com/emerson-wlp-reading-series-mart%C3%ADn-espada-march-15.

If you’d like a signed book, put a note in your order comments that you’d like a signed copy and who you’d like it signed to. Personalized book requests due by end of the day on Friday, March 18. Books will begin to be shipped two weeks after the event.

Martín Espada has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator. His new book of poems from Norton is called Floaters, winner of the 2021 National Book Award. Other books of poems include Vivas to Those Who Have Failed (2016), The Trouble Ball (2011), The Republic of Poetry (2006) and Alabanza (2003). He is the editor of What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump (2019). He has received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, the Robert Creeley Award, an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, the PEN/Revson Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. The Republic of Poetry was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The title poem of his collection Alabanza, about 9/11, has been widely anthologized and performed. His book of essays and poems, Zapata’s Disciple (1998), was banned in Tucson as part of the Mexican-American Studies Program outlawed by the state of Arizona, and reissued by Northwestern. A former tenant lawyer in Greater Boston, Espada is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Contact wlpevents@emerson.edu with any questions, including accessibility requests.

About the School of the Arts at Emerson College: We are a community of artists, professionals, and scholars committed to educating students to bring vision, commitment, sophistication, and courage to their crafts.

A Virtual Poetry Reading: George Kalogeris

Free and open to the public.

Hosted by the Poetry Reading Series at BU, and co-sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities, and the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning at the College of General Studies

George Kalogeris’s most recent book of poems is Winthropos, (Louisiana State University, 2021). He is also the author of Guide to Greece (LSU), a book of paired poems in translation, Dialogos, and poems based on the notebooks of Albert Camus, Camus: Carnets. His poems and translations have been anthologized in Joining Music with Reason, chosen by Christopher Ricks (Waywiser, 2010). He is the winner of the James Dickey Poetry Prize. He teaches English Literature and Classics in Translation at Suffolk University.

Please RSVP by clicking the “Register” button above. A Zoom link will be sent to all registrants.

Joey Talbert has been dancing into the hearts of her audience with her highly interactive shows for more than 15 years. It has been said that when Joey tells tales, pictures fly out of her fingertips. She enjoys telling to children of all ages, but having been a preschool teacher for many years, is uniquely gifted with younger audiences.

Donation at the door: $10 per attendee / $25 per family

About our presenter: Joey Talbert

Joey Talbert has been a professional storyteller since the mid-1990’s and has been listening even longer! She holds a B.S from UNH in Early childhood education with a minor in theater as well as an M.ED from Lesley in Incorporating arts into the curriculum. She has presented workshops at conferences, middle schools, and high schools and has been a guest speaker for college courses. She loves a good story and enjoys helping people find the storyteller inside themselves.