Elaine Equi. Courtesy Bryant Park Blog.
Elaine Equi (born 1953) is an American poet.[1]
Life[]
Equi was born in Oak Park, Illinois, and grew up in the Chicago area. She received a B.A and M.A. in English from Columbia College, and after graduating taught a poetry workshop there for several years.[1]
Since 1988 she has lived in New York City with her husband, poet Jerome Sala. She teaches creative writing in the Master of Fine Arts programs at City College of New York and The New School.
Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and numerous volumes of The Best American Poetry. In April 2007 Coffee House Press published Ripple Effect: New and selected poems. Also in 2007 she edited a special section for Jacket magazine, "The Holiday Album: Greeting Card Poems For All Occasions."
Recognition[]
Her 2007 selected poems, Ripple Effect, was shortlisted for the 2008 International Griffin Poetry Prize.
Publications[]
- Federal Woman. Chicago: Danaides Press, 1978.
- Rose of Lima. Chicago: Danaides Press, 1978.
- Shrewcrazy: Poems. Los Angeles, CA: Little Caeser Press, 1981.
- The Corners of the Mouth. Culver City, CA: Iridescence, 1986.
- Accessories. Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 1988.
- Views Without Rooms. Madras, India, & New York: Hanuman Books, 1989.
- Surface Tension. Coffee House, 1989.
- From 'Decoy'. Elmwood, CT: Potes & Poets Press, 1992.
- Decoy: Poems. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House, 1994.
- Friendship with Things. Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 1998.
- Voice-Over: Poems. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House, 1998.
- Castle, Diamond, Swan. Brooklyn, NY: Belladonna Books, 2003.
- The Cloud of Knowable Things: Poems. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House, 2003.
- Ripple Effect: New and selected poems. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House, 2007.
- Click and Clone: Poems. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House, 2011.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[2]
See also[]
Poet Elaine Equi reads from Ripple Effect
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Elaine Equi, PIP Biographies, Green Integer. Web, July 27, 2014.
- ↑ Search results = au:Elaine Equi, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, July 27, 2014.
External links[]
- Poetry
- Preface at The Figures
- A Lemon at Lacanian Ink
- Two poems at Conjunctions
- Two poems at Shampoo
- Elaine Equi: Two poems at Jacket
- Three poems at The Cortland Review
- Five poems at Coconut
- Elaine Equi profile & 4 poems at the Academy of American Poets
- Elaine Equi at the Poetry Foundation.
- Prose
- "Frank O'Hara: Nothing personal" at Conjunctions
- Audio / video
- Books
- Elaine Equi at Amazon.com
- About
- Elaine Equi at Green Integer
- Griffin Poetry Prize biography
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