Elaine Equi

Elaine Equi

Elaine Equi (born 1953) is an American poet. [ [http://www.greeninteger.com/pipbios_detail.cfm?PIPAuthorID=523 author page at Green Integer] ]

Equi was born in Oak Park, Illinois and grew up in the Chicago area. Since 1988 she has lived in New York with her husband, the poet Jerome Sala. She currently teaches creative writing in the Master of Fine Arts programs at The New School and City College. Widely published, 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.

Works

* "Federal Woman" (Danaides, 1978)
* "Shrewcrazy" (Little Caeser, 1981)
*"The Corners of the Mouth" (Iridescence, 1986)
* "Accessories" (Figures, 1988)
* "Views Without Rooms" (Hanuman Books, 1989)
* "Surface Tension" (Coffee House, 1989)
* "Decoy" (Coffee House, 1994)
* "Friendship with Things" (Figures, 1998)
* "Voice-Over" (Coffee House, 1999)
* "The Cloud of Knowable Things" (Coffee House, 2003)
* "Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems" (Coffee House, 2007) (shortlisted for the 2008 International Griffin Poetry Prize)

Resources

External links

Poetry
* [http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19569 Bent Orbit] at Academy of American Poets
* [http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16470 National Poetry Month] at The Academy of American Poets
* [http://www.conjunctions.com/archives/c19-ee.htm Two poems] at Conjunctions
* [http://www.coconutpoetry.org/equi1.htm Five poems] at Coconut
* [http://www.mipoesias.com/April2004/equi.htm Two poems] at MiPoesias
* [http://www.cortlandreview.com/issuefour/equi4.htm Three poems] at The Cortland Review
* [http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/99_00/equi.html] Out of the Cloud Chamber
* [http://www.lacan.com/frameVII8.htm A Lemon] at Lacanian Ink
* [http://www.shampoopoetry.com/ShampooTwentyfour/equi.html Two poems] at [http://www.shampoopoetry.com/ Shampoo]
* [http://www.3rdbed.com/issue5/Equi-courtesan.htm Courtesans Lounging] at 3rd Bed
* [http://www.geoffreyyoung.com/thefigures/friendship.html Preface] at The Figures
* [http://www.pms-journal.org/volume4.htm The Long Forever] at PoemMemoirStory

Prose
* [http://www.conjunctions.com/archives/c29-ee.htm Frank O'Hara—Nothing Personal] an essay at [http://www.conjunctions.com/ Conjunctions]
* [http://www.poetrysociety.org/journal/articles/tributes/ohara.html The Dirty Poems of Frank O'Hara] an essay (scroll down) at [http://www.poetrysociety.org/journal/articles/tributes/ohara.html PoetrySociety.org]
* [http://www.mipoesias.com/April2004/equiinterview.htm Interview] at [http://www.mipoesias.com/ MiPoesias]

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