https://www.rebeccadelriopoetry.com/home daily 1.0 2022-02-24 https://www.rebeccadelriopoetry.com/about daily 0.75 2022-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fd5a500a0d3d5185a44303/e251e2c9-8b29-4403-873f-8e24d544311b/7183C1CF-F9F6-451C-AC57-52DC36D44CAB_1_201_a.jpg About - About Rebecca … Rebecca del Rio is an American born poet who lives in Catalunya (Spain). She is a graduate of the University of Arizona Creative Writing Program, and has poetry published in literary journals in the United States, Canada, and Europe. In addition, she has a Masters degree in Public Health from Antioch University. For over thirty years, Rebecca worked as an investigator in the Superior Court in Sonoma County, California. During this time, she was also involved in a non-governmental social work and public health project in Highland Guatemala. Along with her husband and several friends, she helped found Foundation Todos Juntos, which continues to support educational, social welfare and public health projects in Guatemala. As an enthusiastic traveler, Rebecca has been fortunate to live and travel extensively in Europe, North and Central America, and has been exposed to many cultures, the diverse and significant histories of many regions and the consequences of globalisation. These experiences have had a profound effect on her writing, as well as her spiritual and meditation practice. Rebecca is married, mother of two daughters and grandmother to six. photo by Numa Marlborough https://www.rebeccadelriopoetry.com/new-poems-in-english daily 0.75 2022-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fd5a500a0d3d5185a44303/1628438100544-FQNZ55IU5FXOFCLB9WT5/IMG_0157+2.JPG New Poems in English https://www.rebeccadelriopoetry.com/catalan-translations daily 0.75 2022-11-27 https://www.rebeccadelriopoetry.com/prescription-for-the-disillusioned daily 0.75 2021-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fd5a500a0d3d5185a44303/1627221591221-HSSRO9X67K8OQIB02GZ3/IMG_1843.JPG Prescription For The Disillusioned - The best of these poems perform a kind of transubstantiation of the mundane to reveal the miraculous, often with an arrival at the imperative voice. “You must be/Willing to stop/Naming even yourself,” she writes in “The Lightening Tree.” This is a voice that comes unadorned, reminiscent of Hafiz, Rilke or Rumi, fearless in its declarations. But distinctly female, the voice of a woman unafraid to speak what she knows. Clear and sweet as after absolution, the poems open their arms to us, earthy and grounded in our daily lives. They refresh and affirm. We know what she’s talking about, though we may not have thought of it before. Elizabeth Carothers Herron (author of The Dark Season, The Stones of the Dark Earth, among other works of poetry, non-fiction, short fiction and essays) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fd5a500a0d3d5185a44303/1627222049561-XUY64Z5PMN7IMU55KKO1/IMG_5601.jpg Prescription For The Disillusioned - Rebecca del Rio gives us poems of her fierce and true heart. Prescription, chant, song. And ways to reflect on our own journey, our own ways of being in the world. Here are poems of Zen questioning, of family and friends, animals, war, death. In “Prescription For The Disillusioned” we walk with her, in Rebecca’s words, “a companion on the dark roads”. Rebecca del Rio’s book speaks of her travels, her life, and we can enter in, travel together, the poems “holding us as we want to be held”. Rebecca del Rio has paid attention, taken care, listened closely on her path, and we are fortunate to have her heartfelt book, made of tigers, and blossoms, and the true questions of life. Jack Crimmins (author of I Speak of Jazz Poets, Kit Fox Blues and The Rust Life) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fd5a500a0d3d5185a44303/1627222497543-FFM95Q84MHFS2SWZTLC3/IMG_0027.JPG Prescription For The Disillusioned - Rebecca del Rio’s poetry is the kind that opens your eyes to new ways of seeing the world, opens your mind to new understandings of that world and opens your heart to the mystery of our human experience. She is one of the finest poets writing today. This collection is medicine for the soul - truly ‘a prescription for the disillusioned.’ Larry Robinson (author of Roll Away the Stone, a collection of poetry (2015) and founder of Rumi’s Caravan and the Sebastopol Oral Tradition Poetry Salon) https://www.rebeccadelriopoetry.com/spanish-translations daily 0.75 2022-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fd5a500a0d3d5185a44303/1645169344735-MYEPWZVZ2E00O1LY7XQI/GettyImages-77188168.jpg Spanish Translations - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.rebeccadelriopoetry.com/contactme daily 0.75 2022-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fd5a500a0d3d5185a44303/1628438073169-9DLOC8N7NBJ5MI4QLSEN/IMG_0449.JPG Contact Me - Contact me… If you have any requests for republishing, please contact me via this contact form and I will get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you so much for your interest in my work!