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  • Elaine Equi

    Part-time Associate Teaching Professor

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    equie@newschool.edu

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    Elaine Equi

    Profile

    Born in Oak Park, Illinois, Elaine Equi earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees at Columbia College of Chicago. Her book, Ripple Effect: New & Selected Poems (Coffee House Press, 2007) was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Award and on the short list for Canada's prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize. She has also published many other collections of poetry including Sentences and Rain, Surface Tension, Decoy, Voice-Over, which won the San Francisco State Poetry Award, and The Cloud of Knowable Things. Her work is widely anthologized and appears in Postmodern American Poetry: a Norton Anthology and in several editions of The Best American Poetry. In addition to The New School, she teaches at New York University. Equi is also a published photographer who explores the relationship bewteen word and image.

    Recent Publications

            Poetry, Conjunctions, The American Poetry Review, Evergreen Review, Harvard Review, Talisman, Vanitas, and Volt. 

    Research Interests

    poetry, photography

    Awards And Honors

    Voice-Over won the San Francisco State Poetry Award for the best book of 1998 chosen by Thom Gunn.

    Current Courses

    Creative Thesis & Lit. Project
    NWRG 5920, Spring 2024

    Future Courses

    Creative Thesis & Lit. Project
    NWRG 5920, Fall 2024

    Past Courses

    Creative Thesis & Lit. Project
    NWRG 5920, Fall 2023

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