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. Both her parents emigrated from Italy in the 1920s. [2] Since 1988 she has lived in New York City 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 Big Other, [3] 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.

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  1. ↑ author page at Green Integer
  2. ↑ PSA interview 1999
  3. ↑ Poems at Big Other
  4. ↑ Sonja James (March 6, 2014). "'Click and Clone' is poetry for 21st century". The Journal . Archived from the original on February 17, 2015. Retrieved February 17, 2015.

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