Elaine Equi (born 1953) is an

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. Equi was born in Oak Park,

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and grew up in the

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area. Since 1988 she has lived in

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with her husband, poet Jerome Sala. She currently teaches

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in the

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programs at

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and

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. Widely published, her poems have appeared in ''

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'', ''American Poetry Review'', and numerous volumes of ''

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''. In April 2007 Coffee House Press published ''Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems''. Also in 2007 she edited a special section for ''

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'': The Holiday Album: Greeting Card Poems For All Occasions. FAMILY She is a second cousin of Albert Guidi of Chicago.

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

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) * ''Click and Clone'' (Coffee House, 2011) * ''Sentences and Rain'' (Coffee House, 2015)

Resources

External links

Poetry
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National Poetry Month
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at Conjunctions

at Coconut

at MiPoesias

at The Cortland Review

Out of the Cloud Chamber

at Lacanian Ink

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at The Figures

at PoemMemoirStory
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Elaine Equi and Jerome Sala Papers
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