Rhina Espaillat

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Rhina Espaillat (born 1932) was born in the Dominican Republic and has lived in the United States since 1939. She taught English in the New York City public schools for many years, and retired to Newburyport, Massachusetts, where for more than a decade she led a group of New Formalist poets known as the Powow River Poets.

Espaillat writes in both English and Spanish, and has become the a prominent translator of the poetry of Robert Frost into Spanish. She is the author of eight books, including the winner of the 2000 Richard Wilbur Award, Rehearsing Absence (University of Evansville Press 2001). Her work has appeared in Poetry, The American Scholar and many other journals, and she is a two-time winner of a top award in formal poetry, the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award sponsored by The Formalist. Her work is included in many popular anthologies, including The Heath Introduction to Poetry (Heath 2000); The Muse Strikes Back (Story Line Press 1997); and In Other Words: Literature by Latinas of the U.S. (Arte Publico Press 1994).