Two oldies by Rhina Espaillat
I thought this might be of interest to some of you. While looking through some old Ladies Home Journal magazines from 1948 and 1949 I came across the following two poems by Rhina P. Espaillat. Not...
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Good grief! I had forgotten these poems existed. I wrote them both in high school, and was 16 when they were published.
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Rhina--There are a couple of pretty godawful lyric poems from the Junior Classical League's newsletter with my name attached to them from when I was fifteen or so. We've all got 'em somewhere.Quincy
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I was 18 or 19 when my first poems were published in Seventeen. Shortly afterward, I had one accepted by Good Housekeeping. Thankfully, I don't remember which month or year, and I hope nobody ever...
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Rhina - I didn't know where to reach you and didn't realize you were a registered user of this board, else I would have asked your permission before posting these. I hope you don't mind. I think they...
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Margaret:I let Rhina know they were here. I didn't mean to put you on the spot, but I thought it would be interesting to get her thoughts. I find these poems engaging. Of course we can see how much...
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You should see the stuff I wrote when I was 16!Wait, no you shouldn't! Rhina's teenage poetry is much, much better (no surprise there). It's interesting to see how she started out. I like the het-met.
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Hi,Promise of Spring has a certain charm don't you think? They're both certainly more accomplished than anything I wrote when I was a teenager. I'd love to see more juvenilia.Stephen, do you REALLY...
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-changed my mind-Even my pseudonym's pseudonym gets embarrassed sometimes...
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Stephen, when time permits, I'll send you one of my juvenile efforts--to your private mail. Maybe that isn't fair, since I made Rhina's public. But Rhina's were accomplished, even if she had been 20...
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I am fascinated by early efforts. Its interesting that Rhina's poems at 16 are clearly in her idiom. I wonder how much we actually develop, what innate weaknesses we will always struggle with, and...
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Stephen, I think all of us, whether consciously or unconsciously, are influenced by what we read. If you (generic "you") are really "into" a certain poet, it's likely your poetry will show the effects...
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I didn't start until five years ago, so I can't compare childhood work.
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