Rhina P. Espaillat at Hyla Brook August 12

The Hyla Brook Reading Series continues at the Robert Frost Farm with a reading by award-winning poet Rhina P. Espaillat. Ms. Espaillat will read on Thursday, August 12, 2010, 6:30pm-8:30pm. Hyla Brook Poet and Frost Farm Manager Bill Gleed will also read. Held at the Frost Farm at 122 Rockingham Rd (Rt 28), the Reading Series is free and open to the public.

Dominican-born and bilingual, Rhina P. Espaillat has published eight full-length books and three chapbooks, including poetry, short stories and essays, mostly in English but occasionally also in her native Spanish. She also translates in both directions, and has published Spanish versions of Robert Frost, and English versions of the chief works of St. John of the Cross and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, among others. Her work has earned several national and international honors, including the T. S. Eliot Prize in Poetry, the Richard Wilbur Award, the Howard Nemerov Prize, and various awards from the Poetry Society of America, the New England Poetry Club, the Robert Frost Foundation and the Dominican Republic's Ministry of Culture. She is a founding member of both the Fresh Meadows Poets of NYC, and the Powow River Poets centered in Newburyport, Mass., where she lives with her husband, the sculptor Alfred Moskowitz.

Bill Gleed, co-founder with Robert Crawford of the Hyla Brook Poets, was born in Amesbury, Mass. and grew up in Haverhill, Mass. A graduate of the University of New Hampshire creative writing program, Bill has managed the Robert Frost Farm state historic site for the previous six seasons. He's also been a faculty member at several area colleges, including Southern New Hampshire University, Hesser College, Franklin Pierce college, Middlesex Community College and Northern Essex Community College. He was poetry editor and a columnist at the UNESCO award-winning web magazine Moondance, and he was a contributing editor at Maelstrom, one of ten small press magazines featured at the 1996 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. Bill was also a news writer for the Portsmouth Herald and the Seacoast news family of newspapers. He was a featured reader at the Houston Poetry Fest in 2001. His poetry has appeared in many journals, both in print and online, including Kettle of Fish, the Boston Globe, Isoceles, and Concrete Wolf.

An Open Mic will follow the readings and all audience members are invited to share their work.
The Hyla Brook Poets group organizes the monthly reading series as well as a monthly writing workshop, which meets on the third Saturday of the month at 10am. The next workshop takes place on Saturday, August 21, 2010, at the Frost Farm in Derry. For questions, please contact Robert Crawford.