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Duane Esposito [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Garden City, NY
New York US
Email: 
duane.esposito@ncc.edu
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.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Favorite authors: 
Hemingway, Steinbeck, Baldwin, Plath, Wright, Lee, Lennon, McCartney, Simon, Bowie.
Born in: 
Brooklyn, NY
New York
Raised in: 
Dix Hills, NY
New York
Prizes won: 

Academy of American Poets Award (1994)

Education: 
University of Arizona
What I'm reading now: 
Listing the books I’m reading now is silly: I’d have to update the list constantly. by
Identifies as: 
American
Prefers to work with: 
Adults

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