The 2025 MARSH HAWK PRESS POETRY PRIZE

CONTEST JUDGE: ELAINE EQUI

 

Elaine Equi is the author of many books of poetry including Voice-Over, which was chosen by Thom Gunn for the San Francisco State Poetry Award; Ripple Effect: New & Selected Poems, which was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry and the International Griffin Poetry Prize; and most recently, The Intangibles. A new collection, Out of the Blank, is forthcoming from Coffee House Press. In 2023 she was guest editor of the annual anthology Best American Poetry. In 2024 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship. 

Widely published, her work has appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies including Poetry, The New Yorker, The Nation, Brooklyn Rail, New American Writing, The Paris Review, The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry, and several editions of Best American Poetry. Over the years, her witty, aphoristic, and innovative work has become nationally and internationally known. Her poems have been translated into Italian, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and Arabic. She has taught in many creative writing programs including those at New York University, City College of New York, and The New School. She lives in New York City.