Sentences and Rain

Equi's poems are under the breath asides from your cleverest friend-witty, thoughtful, and wry. SLIGHT: A slight implies, if not an insult(real or imagined), at least something unpleasant --a slight cold, a slight headache. No one ever says :"You make me slightly happy." Although this, in fact, is often the case. Widely published and anthologized, Elaine Equi's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Nation, and numerous volumes of The Best American Poetry.