Tina Darragh is an American poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

 who was one of the original members of the Language

Language poets

The Language poets are an avant garde group or tendency in United States poetry that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s...

 group of poets.

Darragh was born in Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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 and grew up in the south suburb of McDonald, Pennsylvania

McDonald, Pennsylvania

McDonald is a borough in Allegheny and Washington counties in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, 18 miles southwest of Pittsburgh. In the past, manufactories of bottles, oil-well drilling tools, flour-mill products, etc., existed here. Oil and coal were and still are procured in the area...

. She began writing in 1968 and studied poetry in Washington, DC at Trinity University from 1970 to 1972. Between 1974 and 1976, she worked with Some of Us Press and at the Mass Transit community bookstore and writing workshop.

Mass Transit, and after it Folio bookshop, became focal points for much of the poetic activity that was to result in the East Coast wing of the Language group, and here Darragh met other poets, including Susan Howe

Susan Howe

Susan Howe is a American poet, scholar, essayist and critic, who has been closely associated with the Language poets, among others poetry movements. Her work is often classified as Postmodern because it expands traditional notions of genre...

, Diane Ward

Diane Ward

Diane Ward is a U.S. poet initially associated with the first wave of Language poetry in the 1970s and has actively published into the 21st century, maintaining a presence in various artistic communities for many decades...

, Doug Lang, Joan Retallack

Joan Retallack

Joan Retallack is an American poet, critic, biographer, and multi-disciplinary scholar.-Life and work:Joan Retallack received her B.A. from the University of Illinois, Urbana and her M.A. from Georgetown University...

, and P. Inman

P. Inman

Peter Inman is an American poet who was born in 1947 and raised on Long Island. He is a graduate of Georgetown University. Since 1980 he has worked at the Library of Congress, where he has been a union activist Peter Inman (writing as P. Inman) is an American poet who was born in 1947 and raised...

, all of whom were also to become key members of the group.

She and Inman are married and live in Greenbelt, MD.

Darragh's extensive list of publications include on the corner to off the corner (1981), Striking Resemblance (Burning Deck

Burning Deck Press

Burning Deck is a small press specializing in the publication of experimental poetry and prose. Burning Deck was founded by the writers Keith Waldrop and Rosmarie Waldrop in 1961.-Overview:...

, 1988), a(gain)2 st the odds (1989), and adv. fans - the 1968 series (1993). Her work has been included in numerous anthologies, including the important "Language"-oriented anthology, In the American Tree (edited by Ron Silliman

Ron Silliman

Ron Silliman is an American poet. He has written and edited over 30 books, and has had his poetry and criticism translated into 12 languages. He is often associated with language poetry. Between 1979 and 2004, Silliman wrote a single poem, The Alphabet...

). In 1998, her work was published in the anthology etruscan reader VIII (with Douglas Oliver

Douglas Oliver

Douglas Dunlop Oliver was a poet, novelist, editor, and educator. The author of more than a dozen works, Oliver came into poetry not as an academic but through a career in journalism, notably in Cambridge, Paris, and Coventry, before attending the University of Essex in the 1970s. He received a...

 & Randolph Healy

Randolph Healy

Randolph Healy is an Irish poet and publisher.Healy was born in Scotland and moved to Dublin at the age of 18 months. After leaving school at the age of 14 to work in a number of jobs, he returned to full-time education and graduated in mathematical sciences from Trinity College, Dublin. He now...

) and included selections from "The Dream Rim Instructions + SEE References" and "fractals <<—>> l-in-error". Darragh has also been involved in numerous collaborative efforts with others including the recent Belladonna Elders Series No. 8: Jane Sprague / Tina Darragh / Diane Ward published by Belladonna Books in 2009.

External links

• An interview
• A poem
• Another poem and a photograph
• on the corner   to   off the corner fascimile & pdf at e c l i p s e
• etruscan reader VIII: Tina Darragh, Douglas Oliver & Randolph Healy link to Salt Publishing
  Salt Publishing
  Salt Publishing is an independent publisher whose origins date back to 1990 when poet John Kinsella launched Salt Magazine in Western Australia. The journal rapidly developed an international reputation as a leading publisher of new poetry and poetics...
  
   page on etruscan reader VIII with brief description of Darragh's poetics
• Darragh reading her poem: Collective Lament for Banishing Animals from History Recorded 25 January 2007 at the University of Maine
  University of Maine
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• Doug Lang on Tina Darragh an in-depth look at Darragh's poetry, life, and poetics.
• Opposable Dumbs downloadable ebook at zimZalla publishing.
• The Other Room - interview film of 28 minute interview for The Other Room in Manchester, UK, July 2009.
• The Other Room - reading films of reading for The Other Room in Manchester, UK, July 2009.