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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Tribute to Rhina P. Espaillat
DESCRIPTION:The NEPC is proud to partner with the Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site in honoring Rhina P. Espaillat\, beloved Dominican diasporic poet and English crossover poet. Espaillat will read favorite selections from her work\, alongside readings by the acclaimed Dominican diasporic poet and author Leonardo Nin and the award-winning Dominican poet José Enrique Delmonte\, with translations by Shira Zohara Dickey. To register for this event\, visit this page. \nApril 17\, 2026 | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM \nDominican-born Rhina P. Espaillat has published twenty-four full-length books\, four chapbooks\, and two CDs comprising her own poetry collections\, essays\, and short stories in both English and her native Spanish\, as well as numerous translations\, from and into both languages\, of work by other authors. Her work appears in numerous anthologies\, journals\, and websites\, and has received many national and international awards \nEspaillat is a founding member of the Fresh Meadows Poets\, the Powow River Poets\, The Melopoeia musical Trio\, and the musical quintet known as The Diminished Poets. She has earned many national and international awards\, including the T. S. Eliot and Richard Wilbur Awards\, several from the Poetry Society of America\, the New England Poetry Club\, The Robert Frost Foundation\, the Ministry of Culture of the Dominican Republic\, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Salem State College. \nJosé Enrique Delmonte is a poet\, essayist\, historian\, PhD in linguistics and literature\, and architect. He has received several literary awards\, including the 2014 Poetry Prize from the Universidad Iberoeramericana\, the Ibero-American Poetry Prize at the 2014 Madrid Book Fair\, the 2016 León Felipe International Poetry Prize (Zamora\, Spain)\, and the 2024 Editorial Project Award from Sial Pigmalión Publishing House\, Madrid\, Spain. He has published the poetry collections Alquimias de la ciudad perdida (Alchemies of the Lost City)\, Once palabras que mueve tu mundo (Eleven Words That Move Your World)\, and several others. José Enrique is a member of the Organizing Committee of the Santo Domingo International Poetry Week. His poetry has been translated into English and French. \nShira Zohara Dickey (translator) is a US-born architectural historian\, author\, lecturer\, and former academic society director. She also translates and writes poetry and makes fine art. Fluent in multiple languages\, she has translated two Spanish poetry books by the renowned Santo Domingo poet\, essayist\, and architect\, José Enrique Delmonte\, into English. Shira’s forthcoming projects include publications in architectural history\, a translation of another poetry collection by Delmonte\, and a chapbook with her illustrations dedicated to memories of her loving companion\, deceased MIT atmospheric physicist Ralph J. Markson. \nLeonardo Nin is a writer\, novelist\, poet\, and independent researcher in the fields of cultural anthropology and sociolinguistics. One of the main voices of Dominican literature in the United States and Latin America\, his published works include: Paid Space (poetry\, El Salvador\, 2019)\, That is why I will never go back (Short Stories 20202)\, I Only Know They Called her\, Shadow; At the Blue Side of Nothingness\, and many others. He is currently the director of the Taino Museum of Magua\, Dominican Republic\, and editor of Ivy Editorial of Randolph\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-reading-tribute-to-rhina-espaillat/
LOCATION:Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site\, 105 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
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