This Is What a [Feminist] Poet Looks Like

Featuring:
Monday, February 1: Ching-In Chen, Jennifer Bartlett, & Kate Durbin
Tuesday, February 2: Juliet Cook & Kate Schapira
Wednesday, February 3: Kirsten Kaschock & Michele Battiste
Thursday, February 4: Michelle Detorie & Stephanie Strickland
Friday, February 5: T.A. Noonan & Theodora Danylevich
Saturday, February 6: Amy King & Kirsten Kaschock 2
“My Barbaric Bitch of a Yawp” by Amy King
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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.
Good job, Amy!
I’m particularly glad to see Kate Durbin in the line-up: a talented young poet I discovered through Steve Fama’s blog not too long ago. I see the future of poetry/poetics here.