AWP New York City
Photo by Brent Cunningham, who voted me the one to “Most Likely Blog About This Blog.”
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* Ana and I hung out at the AWP bookfair for one day only. We paid no money, but luckily, I got to share a table with Cannibal, Kitchen Press, and Soft Targets. I saw lots of nice books, though I had no money; moreover, I chatted with lots of pleasant poets — too many to recount. But you should certainly see a few photos of said poets here.
* I’m sorry I missed Daniela Olszewska, who stopped by my table and left her chapbook for me while I was wandering. Thank you, Daniela!
* The always lovely Matthew Zapruder gave me a poetry bus t-shirt.
* William Howe slipped me Tom Orange’s “American Dialectics” hot off his Slack Buddha Press.
* Cannibal Books dropped Dustin Williamson’s “Exhausted Grunts” into my little hands.
* Matt Hart handed over “B^Sides” by his band, Travel. I’m looking forward to hearing what sounds emerge …
* John Deming passed along his Dusie chapbook, “Toadous,” forthcoming.
* Jennifer Bartlett stopped by with a copy of her most gorgeous “Derivative of the Moving Image.”
* Billy Collins came over and offered me his “dirty” candy bar, pictured below, which I accepted. I then offered him my latest book, which he politely accepted. I asked him to please not take it if he was going to give it away. He said he would read it and left. True story.
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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.
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