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Lambda Literary reviews: The Missing Museum! “PUSSIES RIOT IN THE SNOW/ THIS WINTER OLYMPICS.”

“The immediate and the inaccessible eye one another in the halls, exhibits of history both natural and not.”   “These poems do feel tied to the zeitgeist; Vladmir Putin rides past on a steed as “PUSSIES RIOT IN THE SNOW / THIS WINTER OLYMPICS” early in the book. Later, King compares wine with books: “ICE…

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Clit City: Donato, Hall, King, Nao and Warman @ Molasses Books

Molasses Books 770 Hart St., Brooklyn, New York Thursday, October 27th at 8pm-11pm View Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/302408596797222/ Cum celebrate the NYC release of Elizabeth Hall’s I HAVE DEVOTED MY LIFE TO THE CLITORIS (Tarpaulin Sky Press) with readings & performances by CLAIRE DONATO ELIZABETH HALL AMY KING VI KHI NAO LAURA WARMAN Claire Donato…

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Reclaiming Eve, Lilith, Medusa & Kali: Poetry as Pandoric Praxis

December 10th, 2016 12:30-4:30pm at the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center Sleepy Hollow, NY   The feminine encounter with beauty, love and self-sacrifice is typically depicted in a positive, nearly angelic light. However the feminine encounter with self-knowledge has often been depicted as a negative event, bringing the fall of man and worse: a disastrous ruination…

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Amy King and Camille Rankine

December 9th, 2016 7:30 pm At the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center Sleepy Hollow, NY “Amy King and Camille Rankine will read from their most recent collection and discuss what they think it means to be a woman poet in our time. Amy King “applies pressure to the boundaries of “queer” poetry, while finding inspiration in…

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Sexism in the Literary World

Tuesday October 25, 2016 07:00 pm The Center for Fiction 17 E. 47th Street (between Fifth and Madison) New York, NY 10017   This event brings together novelists Bonnie Nadzam andPorochista Khakpour, social change advocate and journalist Kavita Das, and Amy King of VIDA, to discuss sexism and harassment in the publishing industry and writing programs, and what can, and…

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