Amy King's poems seem to encompass all that we think of as the natural world, i.e. sex, sun, love, rotting, hatching, dreaming, especially in the wonderful long poem This Opera of Peace. She brings these abstractions to brilliant, jagged life, emerging into rather than out of the busyness of living: Let the walls bear up the angle of the floor,/Let the mice be tragic for all that is caged,/Let time's contagion mar us/until spoken people lie as particles of wind.
-John Ashbery
Amy King's poems have appeared in a number of print journals, such as Aufgabe, Boston Review, Cannibal, LIT, Forklift Ohio, Foursquare, PRIVATE, Spork , and many others.
In Harp & Altar : Necessary Instinct
In Octopus : A Geography of Pleasure
In Tarpaulin Sky : three poems
In Sharkforum : three poems
In Eleven Eleven : two poems
In Jacket : The Ugly Americans
In H_NGM_N: I Want to Make You Safe
In Open Letters Monthly : Café Town
In Verse Daily : State of a Nation
In The Rumpus : Death, Is Always
On Academy of American Poets site: The Marble Faun
In Milk Mag : three poems
In Drunken Boat : A Woman Is an Act
In Talking Writing : three poems
In Past Simple : I'm Into You & Starry Night
In Gaga Stigmata : Violent Blossoming Cities Ask How to Hear the Song
More? Visit Amy's archive of poems, and essays in Editorial
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Amy King works tirelessly for the poetry community; over the years, she has promoted poetry and poets by curating the Stain of Poetry reading series, editing and moderating poetry listserves, and editing poetry journals within activist and conceptual frameworks.
To find out more about her current editorial projects, turn the page.
"I do not write the feminine, masculine, gay, straight, boi, girl, rich, middle class, American, violent, complacent, homeless, absolute or otherwise. I write beyond the determinable, which is not the same as the indeterminate."
From The What Else of Queer Poetry ;
read complete essay in Free Verse
"What would Woolf, Whitman, Stein, Eliot, Pound, and countless other self-published writers do in the face of the monolithic publishing industry today?"
From Your Own Revolution: Poetry, Publishing and the Internet
"If I blur and confound the line between one more “'them versus us'” modus operandi, then I’'m doing my job and causing people to pause & reconsider the next actions they'’ll take: to hit and kill and segregate, or to lean in, study, consider, smell, see, think and breathe shared air— and then act and react."
From My Barbaric Bitch of a Yawp ; read complete essay on Delirious Hem
esque is a journal of poetry and manifesto Amy King edits with
Ana Bozicevic. The first issue
of esque featured poets such as
Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau
DuPlessis, Brenda Hillman,
Ron Padgett, Tomaz Salamun,
Cole Swensen, Anne Waldman,
Franz Wright and many others.
Poets for Living Waters is a poetry action in response to the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico begun on April 20, 2010, one of the most profound human-made ecological catastrophes in history. The journal, edited by Amy King and Heidi Lynn Staples, features works written in response to the disaster— as well as poems more broadly "in support of living waters," and organizes readings throughout the nation.
Read more in Poets & Writers .
VIDA: Women in Literary Arts seeks to explore critical and cultural perceptions of writing by women through meaningful conversation and the exchange of ideas among existing and emerging literary communities. Amy King organizes VIDA's popular feature The Count , analyzing gender parity in publishing. She also interviews for VIDA; most recently she was in conversation with poets Anne Waldman, Arielle Greenberg, and Conference Director
of AWP Christian Teresi.
Amy King edits the Poetics List , sponsored by The Electronic Poetry Center (SUNY-Buffalo/University of Pennsylvania), and moderates the Women's Poetry Listserv (WOMPO) and the Goodreads Poetry! Group , promoting the discussion of poetry among thousands of poets and
readers.
