“We are thrilled to join together with the School of Arts and Sciences at WPI and Clemente Worcester to launch this annual effort to bring a major poet to Worcester each year,” Elizabeth Bacon, President, WCPA Board of Directors.
WPI Library’s first annual Olive Higgins Prouty Poetry Celebration will feature National Book Award winning poet and University of Massachusetts, Amherst Professor Martín Espada, reading from his 2021 book Floaters, and his new book Jailbreak of Sparrows (April 2025).
Espada’s reading has been organized and made possible in collaboration with the WPI School of Arts & Sciences, the Worcester County Poetry Association, and the Clemente Course in the Humanities.
A reception and book signing will take place after Espada’s reading.
Part of the 2024-2025 Authors Unbound series at WPI.
A special thanks to WCPA’s Stockmal Fund @ The Greater Worcester Community Foundation and Clemente Worcester, a cultural affiliate of the WCPA