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Poetic Resurrection is honored to present Pulitzer Prize finalist, Puerto Rican poet Martin Espada for an intimate and informative conversation. Martin reads his poem Letter to My Father from his book Floaters. We discuss the effects of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico, the people, and especially the town of his father’s birth Utuado. We conversed about historical events and perceptions of Puerto Rico and its people in this heartfelt interview.

Martín Espada has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator. His new book of poems from Norton is called Floaters. Other books of poems include Vivas to Those Who Have Failed (2016), The Trouble Ball (2011), The Republic of Poetry (2006) and Alabanza (2003). He is the editor of What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump (2019). He has received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize*, the Shelley Memorial Award, the Robert Creeley Award, an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, the PEN/Revson Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. The Republic of Poetry was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The title poem of his collection Alabanza, about 9/11, has been widely anthologized and performed. His book of essays and poems, Zapata’s Disciple (1998), was banned in Tucson as part of the Mexican-American Studies Program outlawed by the state of Arizona, and reissued by Northwestern. A former tenant lawyer in Greater Boston, Espada is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

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http://www.martinespada.net/

Frank Espada’s gallery of work: https://www.thefrankespadagalleries.com/

Floaters link on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3C6R3fJ

Pulitzer Prize-nominated book Republic of Poetry: https://amzn.to/3fgIu88

*Ruth Lilly Award: Awarded annually.  Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize honors a living US poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition.

This week on the Poetic Resurrection Podcast we have Jonathan Troen as we discuss the Self-Love Revolution. What it means to learn to love ourselves so we can learn to love others. 

 

Jonathan Troen is a Life Mastery Coach and creator of the Self Love Revolution. 

His mission: To help people find the joy inside of themselves. 

Jonathan spent 20 years in the music and entertainment business, living the life of his dreams and interviewing the biggest stars in the world. But he still wasn’t happy. He also found out, he wasn’t alone. So he went on a mission to find out why.

Once he learned the secrets of true happiness and success, he had to share it with others. This was the beginning of the Self Love Revolution. 

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Website: https://www.SelfLoveRevolution.com

Our guest this week on the Poetic Resurrection Podcast is Dr. Ian Brooks. We had a lively discussion on the process of intention. How the pandemic, perceptions, and beliefs affect our lives and how we can change the characters we created in our story.

His book Intention—Building Capabilities that Transform Your Story is available wherever books are sold.

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This week our guest is the amazing Che’Rae Adams. We discuss what it takes to write a good story and how the story germinates from the soul. That inner voice drawing us to write our story. We discuss the concept sentence, the why of writing and even when we write a memoir or solo show there is a beginning, middle, and an end.  Che’Rae Adams is the Producing Artistic Director of the LA Writers Center http://www.lawriterscenter.org

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This week we have an informative talk with Trini Rodriguez discussing Native American and Mexican American healing sweat-lodges and healing circles. How these concepts bring us closer to the soul. We discuss how they facilitate the “self” in becoming “whole” and we see how the Aztec (Sun) calendar guides us to the essence of our character.

Trini Rodriguez (AKA Tlazohteotl) is co-founder and former Executive Director of Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore (www.tiachucha.org). A cultural center/bookstore in  L.A’s San Fernando Valley that transforms community through ancestral knowledge, the arts, literacy, and creative engagement. A former bilingual educator, court interpreter, and newspaper editor, she writes, speaks, and strives for personal and collective healing and systemic social change. Trini facilitates women’s healing sweat-lodge and healing circles in Native American and Native Mexican traditions. She and her husband Luis J Rodriguez produce “The Hummingbird Cricket Hour” podcast (http://hummingbirdcricket.libsyn.com/) to explore thoughts and move hearts on pressing matters of life, social change, and philosophy.

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This week on the Poetic Resurrection Podcast we have Alex Greenwood, author of The John Pilate Mysteries Series. We discuss writing mysteries, the soul of the character, and what influences writing. Every time we talk, we laugh and have fun. Listen to this episode you’ll learn about his writing process and have a few laughs along the way.

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