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Tina Darragh (1950—2025) was an Americanpoet who was one of the original members of theLanguage group of poets.
Darragh was born inPittsburgh and grew up in the south suburb ofMcDonald, Pennsylvania. She began writing in 1968 and studied poetry inWashington, D.C. atTrinity University from 1970 to 1972. Between 1974 and 1976, she worked with Some of Us Press and at the Mass Transit community bookstore and writing workshop.
Mass Transit, and after it Folio bookshop, became focal points for much of the poetic activity that was to result in the East Coast wing of the "Language" group, and here Darragh met other poets, includingSusan Howe,Diane Ward, Doug Lang,Joan Retallack, andP. Inman, all of whom were also to become key members of the group. Tina Darragh and P. Inman married and spent the majority of their lives in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Darragh's extensive list of publications includeon the corner to off the corner (1981),Striking Resemblance (Burning Deck, 1988),[1]a(gain)2 st the odds (1989), andadv. fans - the 1968 series (1993). Her work has been included in numerous anthologies, including the important "Language"-oriented anthology,In the American Tree (edited byRon Silliman). In 1998, her work was published in the anthologyetruscan reader VIII (withDouglas Oliver &Randolph Healy) and included selections from "The Dream Rim Instructions + SEE References" and "fractals <<—>> l-in-error". Darragh has also been involved in numerous collaborative efforts with others including the recentBelladonna Elders Series No. 8: Jane Sprague / Tina Darragh / Diane Ward published by Belladonna Books in 2009.[notes 1]
Tina Darragh passed away peacefully on November 18, 2025, in the company of friends and family.
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