The 2024-2025 Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program's annual social justice read is the book Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology. The website has a free downloadable reader that contains poems and essays on the eight main themes. The website also has videos of poetry readings and interviews with poets.
Buley Library has multiple copies available for checkout.
El Coro: A Chorus of Latino and Latina Poetry by 
The Blood That Keeps Singing/la Sangre Que Sigue Canta by 
Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing up Latino in the United States
Puerto Rican Writers at Home in the U.S.A.: An Anthology
Nepantla Familias : An Anthology of Mexican American Literature on Families in between Worlds
Half of the World in Light by 
Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems: History and Influence in Mexican-American Social Poetry by 
The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
The Mind's Eye: A Guide to Writing Poetry
Next Word, Better Word: The Craft of Writing Poetry
Poetry: A Very Short IntroductionPoet Martín Espada will be visiting SCSU on Tuesday, April 1, 2025. Espada won the National Book Award for his book Floaters: Poems in 2021. Read more about him and his work here, here, and here. Below is a list of his poetry books and resources about his poetry held at Buley Library.
For individual poems published in journals, search Southernsearch for "Martín Espada" and choose Article and Fulltext Online to filter the results.
City of Coughing and Dead Radiators by 
A Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen by 
Trumpets from the Islands of Their Eviction by 
Vivas to Those Who Have Failed by 
The Immigrant Iceboy's Bolero by 
Zapata's Disciple: Essays by 
Rebellion Is the Circle of a Lover's Hands/Rebelió by 
I Would Lie to You If I Could: Interviews with Ten American Poets
Acknowledged Legislator: Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martín Espada
