Elaine Equi
Elaine Equi is an American poet. Equi was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1953 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.[1] 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)
Resources
- ^ Biographical data drawn from Equi's author page at Green Integer.
External Links
Poetry
- Bent Orbit at The 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
- An Indecisive Fantasy at Shampoo
- Out of the Cloud Chamber at DiaCenter.org
- 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