ABOUT
Of her most recent book from Litmus Press, I Want to Make You Safe, John Ashbery described her poems as bringing “abstractions to brilliant, jagged life, emerging into rather than out of the busyness of living.” Safe was one of the Boston Globe’s Best Poetry Books of 2011, and it was reviewed, among others, by the Poetry Foundation and the Colorado Review. King was also honored by The Feminist Press as one of the “40 Under 40: The Future of Feminism” awardees, and she received the 2012 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities.
I Want to Make You Safe was published by Litmus Press, 2011. Amy King is also the author of Slaves to do These Things, I’m the Man Who Loves You and Antidotes for an Alibi, all from Blazevox Books, as well as The People Instruments (Pavement Saw Press), Kiss Me With the Mouth of Your Country (Dusie Press).
King works on “The Count,” conducts interviews for and is a board member for VIDA: Woman in Literary Arts. She also 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 co-edits Poets for Living Waters with Heidi Lynn Staples and co-edited the PEN Poetry Series and Esque Magazine with Ana Bozicevic.
Finally, King founded and curated, from 2006, the Brooklyn-based reading series, The Stain of Poetry, until 2010. Visit her current site here.
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8 Comments
Post a commenti 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 :)
I once was lost
but now you’re found
I’ll take it as lucky
better late as opposed
to never
where have you been?
or where have I?
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anyway, I’m glad I found your blog, and I apologize ahead of time if I piss anyone off.
Ah, Amy, I hope you won’t mind if I tell you what a good looking face you have. Nose eyes n mouth are real strong.