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For Instance: Poems
128 pages, Paperback
Published January 12, 2026
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Rhina P. Espaillat
32 books16 followersRhina P. Espaillat (b. 1932) is a bilingual American poet and translator.
Espaillat was born in the Dominican Republic in 1932; in 1939, after Espaillat’s great-uncle opposed the regime under dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, the family was exiled and emigrated to the United States. She is a graduate of Hunter College. She taught high school English in the New York City public schools for many years, and retired to Newburyport, Massachusetts. She is a founding member of the Fresh Meadows Poets and a founding member and former director of the Powow River Poets.
Espaillat writes in both English and Spanish, and has become the most prominent translator of the poetry of Robert Frost into Spanish. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The American Scholar, and many other journals. Espaillat has published 11 poetry collections, including Lapsing to Grace: Poems and Drawings (1992); Where Horizons Go (1998), winner of the 1998 T.S. Eliot Prize; Rehearsing Absence (2001), recipient of the 2001 Richard Wilbur Award; Playing at Stillness (2005); and a bilingual chapbook titled Mundo Y Palabra/the World and the Word (2001).
Espaillat was born in the Dominican Republic in 1932; in 1939, after Espaillat’s great-uncle opposed the regime under dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, the family was exiled and emigrated to the United States. She is a graduate of Hunter College. She taught high school English in the New York City public schools for many years, and retired to Newburyport, Massachusetts. She is a founding member of the Fresh Meadows Poets and a founding member and former director of the Powow River Poets.
Espaillat writes in both English and Spanish, and has become the most prominent translator of the poetry of Robert Frost into Spanish. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The American Scholar, and many other journals. Espaillat has published 11 poetry collections, including Lapsing to Grace: Poems and Drawings (1992); Where Horizons Go (1998), winner of the 1998 T.S. Eliot Prize; Rehearsing Absence (2001), recipient of the 2001 Richard Wilbur Award; Playing at Stillness (2005); and a bilingual chapbook titled Mundo Y Palabra/the World and the Word (2001).
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February 12, 2026
Really well written poetry. Easy to read.
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