Poets Across the Generations 97-98 Martin Espada and Eduardo Arocho

Join us in a celebration of El Grito de Lares, the Puerto Rican uprising in September 1868 against Spanish colonialism that led to the first Republic of Puerto Rico.

Martin Expada is the winner of a PEN/Revson Fellowship and a Paterson Poetry Prize. The author of four previous collections of poetry, he lives with his wife, Katherine, and his son, Clemente, in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He has been awarded two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Massachusetts Artists? Fellowship. Eduardo Arocho published in Open Fist Anthology of Young Illinois Poets (Tia Chucha Press, 1993) has been a director of Puerto Rican Museum of History and Culture. He has been a teaching assistant for Gallery 37 after school and summer writing workshops. Eduardo has also organized numerous events at Northeastern IL. University. He is presently completing a poet-opera entitled ?Rainbow Shoes: A Poet-Opera.? funded by the NEA.