Rhina P. Espaillat
Rhina P. Espaillat
Rhina P. Espaillat (B. 1932)
Rhina P. Espaillat was born in the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. Her family was exiled to the United States and settled in New York City. She began writing poetry in Spanish and then in English and has published in both languages.
Espaillat has published 11 collections of poetry, including Lapsing to Grace (1992); Where Horizons Go (1998), winner of the 1998 T.S. Eliot Award; Rehearsing Absence (2001), Richard Wilbur Award Winner 2001; Playing in Stillness (2005); And a bilingual chapter book entitled World and Word / The World and the Word (2001).
Espaillat’s work has garnered many awards, including the Sparrow Sonnet Award, three Poetry Society of America awards, the Der-Hovanessian Translation Award and, for his Spanish translations by Robert Frost, the Tree at My Window award Robert Frost Foundation. She is a two-time winner of the Formalist’s Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award and received a 2008 Achievement of Life Award from Salem State College. She is a founding member of the Fresh Meadows Poets and a founding member and former director of the Powow River Poets. For more than a decade, he coordinated the Newburyport Art Association’s Annual Poetry Contest. On 1998 T.S. Eliot Prize for Where Horizons Go.
Rhina P. Espaillat
Rhina P. Espaillat (n. 1932)
Rhina P. Espaillat nació en la República Dominicana bajo la dictadura de Rafael Trujillo. Su familia fue exiliada a los Estados Unidos y se instaló en la ciudad de Nueva York. Comenzó a escribir poesía en inglés y luego en español, y ha publicado en ambos idiomas. Espaillat ha publicado trece colecciones que abarcan poesía, cuentos, ensayos y traducciones.
Esas incluyen Lapsing to Grace (1992); Where Horizons Go (1998), ganador del Premio T. S. Eliot 1998; Rehearsing Absence (2001), ganador del Premio Richard Wilbur Award 2001; Playing at Stillness (2005); un chapbook titulado Mundo y Palabra/The World and the Word (2001); Her Place in These Designs (2008); y El olor de la memoria/The Scent of Memory (2007).
La obra de Rhina Espaillat ha obtenido otros premios, entré ellos el Sparrow Sonnet Award, tres premios anuales de la Poetry Society of America, el Premio Der-Hovanessian otorgado por el New England Poetry Club, y el premio Tree at My Window, de la Robert Frost Foundation, por sus traducciones al español de las obras de Robert Frost. En 2008 recibió un Reconocimiento con Motivo de Logros Vitalicios de Salem State College. Es miembro fundadora de dos organizaciones literarias, los Fresh Meadows Poets y los Powow River Poets.