ABOUT
Amy King is the author of I’m the Man Who Loves You and Antidotes for an Alibi, both from Blazevox Books, The People Instruments (Pavement Saw Press), Kiss Me With the Mouth of Your Country (Dusie Press), and forthcoming, Slaves to Do These Things (Blazevox) and I Want to Make You Safe (Litmus Press).
Amy edits the Poetics List, sponsored by The Electronic Poetry Center (SUNY-Buffalo/University of Pennsylvania), moderates the Women’s Poetry Listserv (WOMPO) and the Goodreads Poetry! Group, and teaches English and Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. Her poems have been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes, and she has been the recipient of a MacArthur Scholarship for Poetry. Amy King was also the 2007 Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere. She is currently editing an anthology, The Urban Poetic, forthcoming from Factory School.
For information on the reading series Amy co-curates, go to The Stain of Poetry: A Reading Series blog or visit her current blog here.
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i cant remember where i read a poem of yours but i know because a line struck me and it went something like this: “begin each day celebrating the hour of your conception & simultaneous abandonment of complete non-existence.” poem?
-ally
ps:you should turn off the snap preview feature on the blog
pps: i live quite near ncc, most people from my high school go there
Hi Ally,
That would be this poem: http://amyking.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/a-scarf-is-a-sure-sign/
Glad you liked it! And I turned off the shot preview …
Enjoy!
Amy
Nice blog:)
So, so much going on here. I think I’m gonna enjoy this…but it looks like it could take a while to get my mind around it all. Expect to see alot of me from now on. :)
I enjoy your writing. I also think you are pretty.
Cheers.
great blog you have :)