This will be our second visit with the renowned poet of the Puerto Rican diaspora – Martin Espada - and with his partner and wife, Lauren Schmidt -- poet, writer, teacher and worker in the field of the socially oppressed. Rebecca McKean and Chris Brandt and I – Alan Winson—spoke with Lauren and Martin on Bar Crawl Radio – Episode #88. For this Hunkered Down Podcast we found the couple cozied together in their home in Shutesbury, Massachusetts with their Pomeranian – Fenrir – named after the giant wolf that ate Norse gods. You can hear her panting in this recording.
We spoke about their lives in the wilds with bears and gigantic sink holes -- and they shared their concerns and worries and hopes about our Pandemic Times. Martin reads a soon-to-be published poem from his book “Floaters” -- a love poem to his wife. A poem that resonates with much broader ideas of freedom and bravery and positive opposition to entrenched power – about Chilean Victor Jara – poet, theatre director, and political activist who was tortured and killed during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet – “That We Will Sing” Lauren reads a poem of oneness -- filled with palpable imagery by Marge Piercy –“The Art of a Blessed Day.”
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