Latino poetry is best characterized by the works of Lorna Dee Cervantes,Cuban-American award winning Carlos Pintado, Giannina Braschi, Pedro Pietri, Martín Espada, and Alurista.
In 2009, Espada performed in The People Speak a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.
"Our Word is Our Weapon crystallizes the passion of a rebel, the poetry of a movement, and the literary genius of indigenous Mexico. The flame that burns here is a light for literature and democracy, a dangerous fire for those in power." — Martín Espada.
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An online digital archive of video interviews with Latino and Latina writers around the United States including William Archila, Richard Blanco, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Martín Espada, Valerie Martinez, Naomi Ayala, Brenda Cárdenas, Salvador Plascencia, Barbara Jane Reyes, Maria Melendez, Daniel Alarcón and John Phillip Santos.