Duane Esposito

Poet

Garden City, NY
New York US

Author's Bio

Duane Esposito is a Professor of English at Nassau Community College. He has an M.A. from SUNY Brockport and an M.F.A. from the University of Arizona. His work was selected by Diane Glancy for an Academy of American Poets Award & his poems have been published in dozens of journals. His collections are The Book of Bubba (Brown Dog Press, 1998), Cadillac Battleship (brokenTribe Press, 2005), Declaration for Your Bones (Yuganta Press, 2012), Dropping Death, a collaboration with Ralph Nazareth (Yuganta Press, 2018), & Panic’s Hymn, a reissue / re- imagining of Cadillac Battleship. (GloveBox Poems, 2018). He lives on Long Island—on Lopsided Farm—with his wife, daughter, son, & many animals.

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Dropping Death (Yuganta Press, 2018)
,
Declaration For Your Bones (Yuganta Press, 2012)
Prizes won: 

Academy of American Poets Award (1994)

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Hemingway, Steinbeck, Baldwin, Plath, Wright, Lee, Lennon, McCartney, Simon, Bowie.
What I'm reading now: 
Listing the books I’m reading now is silly: I’d have to update the list constantly. by

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Brooklyn, NY
New York
Raised in: 
Dix Hills, NY
New York
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Last update: Sep 15, 2021