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Elaine Equi

Poetry News:

— Unfortunately, poetry in general has a bad reputation —

— new lit mag alert —

— The Griffin Poetry Prize Announces the 2008 Canadian and International Shortlist —

— She did say, though, that her interest in cryptography, the study of coded writing, influenced her poems, along with her love of puzzles —

— Never has so [...]

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Poetry News:

— Official State Author and Poet Are Named —

— Owners To Open ‘Mystery Room’ Sealed For 50 Years —

— What are your feelings on MFA programs in regard to authors publishing in today’s market? —

— The rubric “poet among painters” does not adequately explain the radical shifts between formal and personal values in O’Hara’s [...]

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Poetry News:

Emory Prof Wins Poetry Pulitzer —

Selections from readings hosted for National Poetry Month 2007, including new poems by Laure-Anne Bosselaar and Elaine Equi [links to MP3] —

Do you walk around with a rainforest in your head? —

Here are the five bestselling poetry books in the US for the week of March [...]

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Poetry News:

Elaine Equi’s newest collection, Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems, includes this new work, “Bent Orbit.” —

As will be obvious by now, one of the rules of the triolet is that its first two lines return as the last two —

Poets behave like conquistadors wherever they roam, picking up a new verse [...]

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Poetry News:

Poetic attention gives the circumstances of a moment in one life some of the enduring qualities of myth —

Equi is a poet of transformations, exploring the pathway linking inner and outer worlds, dream life and lived life, heart and mind —

“Dazzled” by both men‘ achievements (and even though Eliot mocked her in [...]

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