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Martín Espada recently received the Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry from the Virginia Quarterly Review (VQR) for the following poems:

• Award Ceremony Nightmare With Swedish Meatballs
• Big Bird Died for Your Sins
• Look At This
• Love Song of the Disembodied Head in a Jar

The Emily Clark Balch Prize was created to honor the best writing to appear in the pages of VQR, the award-winning literary magazine established in 1925.

For more information about Espada’s work, please see his faculty profile.