SAturday 3PM
May 12 , 2012
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Ned Balbo
Winner, Poet's Prize
Nancy Bailey Miller
Powow River Poets
Rhina P. Espaillat
Dominican-born and bilingual, and a former high school English teacher in NYC, RPE writes poetry, essays and short stories in both English and Spanish, and translates in both directions. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines and some fifty anthologies. She was a founding member of two long-lived, active poetry workshops: NYC's Fresh Meadows Poets, and the Powow River Poets in Newburyport, MA, and has served on the faculty of the yearly West Chester Poetry Conference.
Books and Chapbooks
Agua de dos rios (Water from Two Rivers: Bilingual Essays & Poems)
El color de la memoria: cuentos/The Scent of Memory: Short Stories (bilingual)
Poetry Online
Honors
T. S Eliot Prize in Poetry
Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award
Richard Wilbur Award
Oberon Prize
Robert Frost Foundation Tree at My Window Prize for Translation
Several from the New England Poetry Club, including the May Sarton Award
Several from the Poetry Society of America
Several from the Ministry of Culture & Education of the Dominican Republic
Salem State College 2008 Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Award
Other
Melopoeia CD recorded with Alfred Nicol & classical guitarist John Tavano
First Things - A series of translations of the nine best-known works of Saint John of the Cross.
Per Contra Interview
Guidelines for the Teaching of Poetry