Writing Without Paper: Thought for the Day

Poems . . . see the cracks in what we agree to believe

is smooth, and drop in to tell us about those cracks.

A poem may tell you a great deal worth hearing by

inviting you out of yourself and into somebody else's

world, some other mind. Such a poem may lead you

back into your own life and show you a new self by placing

you in that unfamiliar spot and asking you to be, to think, or

feel something new. It may also show you something about your

old familiar self you had not discovered — or faced — before.

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Her Place in These Designs (Truman State University Press, 2008)

Playing at Stillness (Truman State University Press, 2005)

Rehearsing Absence: Poems (University of Evansville Press, 2001)

The Shadow I Dress In (WordTech Communications, 2004)

Where Horizons Go: Poems (Truman State University Press, 1998)

Rhina P. Espaillat Site at North Shore Community College (Text and audio for several of Espaillat's poems are found here.)

Rhina P. Espaillat Page at PoemTree (More than 20 of Espaillat's poems are available here.)

Rhina P. Espaillat Page at Poetry Foundation

Rhina P. Espaillat Page at Powow River Poets

Interview at Per Contra (Summer 2008)

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