December 11, 1922 – August 22, 2007
I love her stories, which I still teach in my classes, and her pacifist activism was an absolute inspiration.
Peace to Grace Paley and much gratitude.
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Interview at Salon.
Another interview at Salon.
NY Times on Paley’s books.
Listen to Paley read and a conversation at UPENN.
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“Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.”
“You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.”
“. . . people will sometimes say, ‘Why don’t you write more politics?’ And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women is politics.”
–Grace Paley
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Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the Women’s National Book Association (WNBA) Award. Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She co-edited with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She also co-edits the anthology series, Bettering American Poetry, and is a professor of creative writing at SUNY Nassau Community College.
AMY KING 
August 24th, 2007 at 12:08 pm eHey….she made the yahoo headlines yesterday.
Any excerpts of her poetry?
August 24th, 2007 at 7:35 pm eI didn’t really follow her poetry much. I was a fan of her short stories … I’m sure her verse is online.