{"id":62045,"date":"2018-06-12T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-martin-espada-awarded-2018-ruth-lilly-poetry-prize\/"},"modified":"2018-06-12T12:16:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T16:16:03","slug":"martin-espada-ganador-de-la-edicion-2018-del-premio-ruth-lilly-a-la-poesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/martin-espada-ganador-de-la-edicion-2018-del-premio-ruth-lilly-a-la-poesia\/","title":{"rendered":"Mart\u00edn Espada Awarded 2018 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">CHICAGO<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">June 12, 2018<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; Last night, the Poetry Foundation presented Mart\u00edn Espada with the 2018 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/foundation\/prizes-lilly\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize<\/a>, which honors a living US poet for outstanding lifetime achievement. Mart\u00edn Espada\u00a0was awarded the prize in recognition of his contribution to poetry. He is the first Latinx poet to win this award since its inception in 1986.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpgcb4eleft\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpgcb4eleft\" title=\" \" border=\"0\" alt=\" \" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/704792\/poetry_foundation.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize is presented annually to a living US poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant singular recognition. It is one of the most prestigious awards given to American poets and, with a prize of <span class=\"xn-money\">$100,000<\/span>, one of the nation&#8217;s largest literary prizes. The award is sponsored and administered by the Poetry Foundation, publisher of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poetrymagazine\" rel=\"nofollow\">Poetry<\/a> magazine. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mart\u00edn Espada&#8217;s work and life tell the real and lived story of America, in which the importance of poems and legal rights go hand in hand,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Don Share<\/span>, editor of <i>Poetry <\/i>magazine. &#8220;A tenants&#8217; rights attorney before he became a celebrated and cherished poet, Espada&#8217;s passions are as compelling and apt as his precisions\u2014both now more timely than ever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Espada was born in <span class=\"xn-location\">Brooklyn, New York<\/span>, in 1957. He earned a BA in history at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison and a JD from <span class=\"xn-org\">Northeastern University<\/span>. As an attorney, he served as supervisor of Su Cl\u00ednica Legal, a legal services program for low-income, Spanish-speaking tenants in <span class=\"xn-location\">Chelsea, Massachusetts<\/span>, outside <span class=\"xn-location\">Boston<\/span>. As a poet, an essayist, an editor, and a translator, he has dedicated himself to the pursuit of social justice, fighting for the rights of Latinx communities and reclaiming the historical record from oblivion. His greatest influence is his father, <span class=\"xn-person\">Frank Espada<\/span>, a community organizer, civil rights activist, and documentary photographer who created the Puerto Rican Diaspora Documentary Project.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To receive a lifetime achievement award in the form of the Ruth Lilly Prize is a great honor that causes me to reflect: on my father, as artist and activist, who died four years ago; on Jack Ag\u00fceros, the first poet I ever met; on the days I sat outside the courtroom, scribbling poems on legal pads; on the people in the poems I write, <span class=\"xn-location\">Whitman&#8217;s<\/span> &#8216;numberless unknown heroes equal to the greatest heroes known.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Espada&#8217;s latest collection of poems from Norton is <i>Vivas to Those Who Have Failed <\/i>(2016). Other books of poems include <i>The Trouble Ball <\/i>(2011), <i>The Republic of Poetry <\/i>(2006), <i>Alabanza<\/i> (2003), <i>A Mayan Astronomer in Hell&#8217;s Kitchen<\/i> (2000), <i>Imagine the Angels of Bread <\/i>(1996), and <i>Rebellion is the Circle of a Lover&#8217;s Hands<\/i> (1990). He has received a Shelley Memorial Award, a <span class=\"xn-person\">Robert Creeley<\/span> Award, a National Hispanic Cultural Center Literary Award, a PEN\/Revson Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. <i>The Republic of Poetry<\/i> was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The title poem of his collection <i>Alabanza, <\/i>about 9\/11, has been widely anthologized and performed. Collections of Espada&#8217;s poems have been published in <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Spain<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Chile<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">France<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Germany<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">England<\/span>, and <span class=\"xn-location\">Turkey<\/span>. His book of essays, <i>Zapata&#8217;s Disciple<\/i> (1998), was banned in <span class=\"xn-location\">Tucson<\/span> as part of a Mexican American studies program outlawed by the state of <span class=\"xn-location\">Arizona<\/span> and has been issued in a new edition by <span class=\"xn-org\">Northwestern University<\/span> Press. Espada is a professor of English at the <span class=\"xn-org\">University of Massachusetts Amherst<\/span>. Examples of Espada&#8217;s poetry are available on the Poetry Foundation&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poets\/martin-espada\" rel=\"nofollow\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also honored at the event was acclaimed author <span class=\"xn-person\">Liesl Olson<\/span> who was named the 2018 Criticism Award winner for her most recent book, <i>Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest<\/i> <i><span class=\"xn-location\">Metropolis<\/span><\/i> (<span class=\"xn-location\">Yale<\/span>, 2017). <\/p>\n<p>Olson is director of Chicago Studies at the Newberry Library and author of <i>Modernism and the Ordinary<\/i> (<span class=\"xn-org\">Oxford University<\/span> Press, 2009). She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and from the Newberry Library, where she also directed the Scholl Center for American History and Culture. She is currently on a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies and is a scholar-in-residence at the Newberry Library. From 2004\u20132009, she taught at the <span class=\"xn-org\">University of Chicago<\/span> as a Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Humanities Division. She earned a BA from <span class=\"xn-org\">Stanford University<\/span> and a PhD from <span class=\"xn-org\">Columbia University<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/foundation\/press\/147069\/martn-espada-awarded-2018-ruth-lilly-poetry-prize\" rel=\"nofollow\">VIEW THIS RELEASE ONLINE <\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>About the Poetry Foundation<br \/><\/b>The Poetry Foundation, publisher of\u00a0<i>Poetry\u00a0<\/i>magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in American culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience. The Poetry Foundation seeks to be a leader in shaping a receptive climate for poetry by developing new audiences, creating new avenues for delivery, and encouraging new kinds of poetry through innovative literary prizes and programs. 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Mart\u00edn Espada\u00a0was awarded the prize in recognition of his contribution to poetry. 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