Returning the Blood to Words

At almost every AWP Conference (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) there is a moment, a panel, a writer who reminds you of why you became a writer in the first place.  The annual conference is in Denver this year, and Martín Espada, the master poet, was the man for me this year.  Last year it was Marie Ponsot.

Espada: "Writers should return the blood to words."

Espada said so many things on his panel, "Justice, Community, and the Republic of Poetry," with Tara Betts and David Mura.&nbsp...