Two Mexicanos Lynched in Santa Cruz, California, May 3, 1877

Martín Espada has published numerous collections of poetry, including The Immigrant Iceboy’s Bolero (Waterfront Press), Trumpets from the Islands of Their Eviction (Bilingual Press), and Rebellion Is the Circle of a Lover’s Hands (Curbstone Press). His awards include a Massachusetts Artists Fellowship and the PEN/Revson Foundation Fellowship. He lives in Boston, where he works as a lawyer and teaches at Suffolk University Law School. (updated 1990)