Martín Espada Wins Virginia Quarterly Review’s Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry
The poet was recognized for four poems that appeared in the VQR winter 2022 issue
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English Professor and National Book Award-winning poet Martín Espada has won the esteemed Virginia Quarterly Review’s (VQR) Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry for four poems that appeared in the winter 2022 issue: “Award Ceremony Nightmare With Swedish Meatballs”; “Big Bird Died for Your Sins”; “Look at This”; and “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.
Espada’s latest book of poetry is “Floaters” (Norton, 2021), which was the winner of the National Book Award and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Other collections of poems include “Vivas to Those Who Have Failed” (Norton, 2016), “The Trouble Ball” (Norton, 2011), and “Alabanza” (Norton, 2003).
He has received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, a Letras Boricuas Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.