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A Conversation
with Len Krisak
Rhina
P. Espaillat in the Première Issue
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Rhina P. Espaillat was born in the Dominican Republic, has lived in
the U.S. since 1939, and writes in both English and Spanish, but primarily
in English. Her poems have appeared in many magazines, including Poetry,
Sparrow, Pivot and The Formalist, and in various
anthologies, including A
Formal Feeling Comes and The
Muse Strikes Back, both from Story Line Press, and the current
Heath Introduction to Poetry.
She has two poetry collections in print, Lapsing
to Grace, published by Bennett
& Kitchel in 1992, and Where
Horizons Go, which
won the 1998 T. S. Eliot Prize and was published by New Odyssey Press.
In addition to writing, she run a monthly workshop—The Powow River
Poets—presents a monthly reading series, and coordinates a
yearly poetry contest both sponsored
by the Newburyport Art Association Singular Speech Press has released
an anthology with her work, Landscapes
with Women: Four American Poets.
She is the winner of this year's Richard Wilbur Award
and will have the winning manuscript, Rehearsing
Absence, published as her third book, in December 2001,
by the University of Evansville Press.
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enlarged
view.
Rhina P. Espaillat's
books at the
Bookstore.
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