Rhina Espaillat is a founding member and former director of the Powow River Poets. She writes poetry and prose both in English and in her native Spanish. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines, including The Lyric, Poetry, Sparrow, Orbis, The Formalist, and The American Scholar, as well as some forty anthologies. Espaillat has eight poetry [...]

  For this article, we interviewed Joan Houlihan, founder and director of the Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference.  Her most recent book of poetry is The Us (Tupelo Press), named as a “must read” book of 2009 by Massachusetts Center for the Book. She is also author of The Mending Worm, winner of the 2005 Green Rose [...]

The Frost Place is a nonprofit educational center for poetry based at Robert Frost’s old homestead in Franconia, New Hampshire. We produce three poetry conferences each summer. The Advanced Seminar has a history of focusing on “poetry ancestors”— you know, the “great shades” and still-living poets in whose footsteps we try to walk as contemporary poets.