Elaine Equi
Encyclopedia
Elaine Equi is an American poet.
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, poet Jerome Sala. She currently teaches creative writing
in the Master of Fine Arts
programs at City College of New York
and The New School
. 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.
Prose
Equi was born in Oak Park
Oak Park, Illinois
Oak Park, Illinois is a suburb bordering the west side of the city of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is the twenty-fifth largest municipality in Illinois. Oak Park has easy access to downtown Chicago due to public transportation such as the Chicago 'L' Blue and Green lines,...
, Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
and grew up in the Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
area. Since 1988 she has lived in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
with her husband, poet Jerome Sala. She currently teaches creative writing
Creative writing
Creative writing is considered to be any writing, fiction, poetry, or non-fiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, and technical forms of literature. Works which fall into this category include novels, epics, short stories, and poems...
in the Master of Fine Arts
Master of Fine Arts
A Master of Fine Arts is a graduate degree typically requiring 2–3 years of postgraduate study beyond the bachelor's degree , although the term of study will vary by country or by university. The MFA is usually awarded in visual arts, creative writing, filmmaking, dance, or theatre/performing arts...
programs at City College of New York
City College of New York
The City College of the City University of New York is a senior college of the City University of New York , in New York City. It is also the oldest of the City University's twenty-three institutions of higher learning...
and The New School
The New School
The New School is a university in New York City, located mostly in Greenwich Village. From its founding in 1919 by progressive New York academics, and for most of its history, the university was known as the New School for Social Research. Between 1997 and 2005 it was known as New School University...
. Widely published, her poems have appeared in The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
, American Poetry Review, and numerous volumes of The Best American Poetry
The Best American Poetry
The Best American Poetry series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing seventy-five poems.The series, begun by poet and editor David Lehman in 1988, has a different guest editor every year...
. 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 PrizeGriffin Poetry PrizeThe Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award. It was founded in 2000 by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin. The awards go to one Canadian and one international poet who writes in the English language....
)
External links
Poetry- Bent Orbit at Academy of American PoetsAcademy of American PoetsThe Academy of American Poets is a non-profit organization dedicated to the art of poetry. The Academy was incorporated as a "membership corporation" in New York State in 1934...
- 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
- http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/99_00/equi.html 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
- Griffin Poetry Prize biography
- Griffin Poetry Prize reading, including video clip
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