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Poet Martín Espada on the 3rd Anniversary of the El Paso Massacre

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Poet Martín Espada on the 3rd Anniversary of the El Paso Massacre
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Our local hero, UMass Professor, National Book Award Winning poet, Martín Espada, reflects poetically on the third anniversary of the horrible Wal-Mart shooting of Latinos in El Paso.

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