Elaine Equi

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Elaine Equi (born 1953) is an American poet.^[1]

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.

[edit] 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)

[edit] Resources

[edit] External links

Poetry

• Bent Orbit at Academy of American Poets
• National Poetry Month at The Academy of American Poets
• Two poems at Conjunctions
• Five poems at Coconut
• Two poems at MiPoesias
• Three poems at The Cortland Review
• [1] Out of the Cloud Chamber
• A Lemon at Lacanian Ink
• Two poems at Shampoo
• Courtesans Lounging at 3rd Bed
• Preface at The Figures
• The Long Forever at PoemMemoirStory

Prose

• Frank O'Hara—Nothing Personal an essay at Conjunctions
• The Dirty Poems of Frank O'Hara an essay (scroll down) at PoetrySociety.org
• Interview at MiPoesias

Persondata
NAME	Equi, Elaine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	American poet
DATE OF BIRTH	1953
PLACE OF BIRTH	Oak Park, Illinois, United States
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH