Press. Leslie Monsour (2021), The Colosseum critical introduction to Rhina P. Espaillat, Steubenville, OH : Franciscan University Press, ISBN 978-1-73398-897-1 External links Official website A Conversation with Rhina P. Espaillat, Rattle, June 17, 2013. An Interview with Rhina Espaillat; Poet and Translator Mythos'', January 13, 2017. Short biography of the poet. Short video of an animation that accompanies Espaillat's reading of her poem "Weighing In"; the animation was created by Christopher Dudley Thorpe. 1932 births 20th-century African-American women writers 20th-century African-American writers 20th-century American poets 20th-century American women writers 20th-century Dominican Republic poets 20th-century translators 21st-century African-American women writers 21st-century African-American writers 21st-century American poets 21st-century American women writers 21st-century Dominican Republic poets 21st-century translators Activists for African-American civil rights African-American poets American women poets American Spanish-language poets Anti-racism activists Dominican Republic emigrants to the United States Dominican Republic women poets Dominican Republic people of French descent English–Spanish translators Formalist poets Hispanic and Latino American poets Living people Native American poets People from La Vega, Dominican Republic People from La Vega Province Poets from Massachusetts Poets from New York (state) Portuguese–English translators Sonneteers Spanish–English translators Translators from Czech Translators of Gabriela Mistral Welsh–English translators White Dominicans Writers from Newburyport, Massachusetts Writers from New York City