Today Monday Muse presents the animated videopoem, "Soldiers in the Garden". The poem is by Martin Espada and is from his award-winning collection The Republic of Poetry (W.W. Norton, 2006), which also was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in poetry.
Poem Text and Audio by Espada
Poem Text and Audio by Espada
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My thanks to Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University in Ohio for the link to the video. (Read about the center's Traveling Stanzas project.) Espada, a long-time political activist, was part of Kent State's Symposium on Democracy in 2014.
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