Martín Espada's poem "Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper" was featured in a new episode of the PBS series Poetry in America.
The episode description reads: Long before he won the National Book Award, Latinx poet Martín Espada worked after school in a factory making legal pads. Espada, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, economists Natasha Sarin, Betsey Stevenson, and Justin Wolfers, historian Jill Lepore, and actor John Turturro join Elisa New to reflect on social mobility, and what connects manual labor with the raw materials of poetry and law.
For more on Espada's work, visit his faculty profile.