Online: 2024 Contests Reading

Please join us on Zoom for our annual reading, featuring: Poems from winners of the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize and Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize contests; Winning and honorable-mention poems … Read more

Longfellow Student Poetry Awards 2024

Kick off the summer with a celebration of emerging poets! The Longfellow Student Poetry Contest is an annual competition of original poetry, with categories for high school, middle school, and … Read more

Student Poetry Award Reading

Winners of the Longfellow Poetry contests (grades 3-8), the NEPC High School Poetry contests (grades 9-12), and the Victor Howes Award will read their work on the lawn of the … Read more

Join us for the Golden Rose reading with this year’s recipient Rhina P. Espaillat!

Register in advance here: https://www.nps.gov/long/planyourvisit/summer-festival.htm

This year’s annual Golden Rose Award will be presented to Rhina P. Espaillat. Espaillat has published twelve full-length books, four chapbooks and a monograph on translation.

Espaillat is noted for her English translations of Saint John of the Cross, as well as her book of Spanish translations of Robert Frost, Algo hay que no es amigo de los muros/Something There Is that Doesn’t Love a Wall, and her bilingual collection of Richard Wilbur translations, Oscura fruta/Dark Berries.Her work, which comprises poetry, essays and short stories in both English and her native Spanish, and translations from and into both languages, appears in numerous journals, anthologies and websites. She has received many national and international awards.

A founding member of the Melopoeia trio, Espaillat performs with poet Alfred Nicol and guitarist John Tavano, as well as with the quintet known as The Diminished Prophets.