Sexy – Page 2 – AMY KING

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…

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…

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…

This Saturday!Reading at the Red Room at KGB!

I’m reading THIS SATURDAY w some very cool poets! Sat, September 24, 7:00pm – 9:00pm “The New International: Working Poets of the World, Unite!” is in association with100TPC.org (100 Thousand Poets for Change), which is why the date of Sept. 24th is important, as this poetry reading will be part of many others taking place…

FOLDER Magazine featuring Amy King

FOLDER September features the work of #AmyKing. @amyhappens https://t.co/Gp3mMKyLJG #poetry #reading #readme

I ALSO READ A POEM! “Amy King considers how the media represent race and police violence.”

Perspective https://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/audio/detail/89611 Amy King considers how the media represent race and police violence. Produced by Katie Klocksin. Audio Player

MY NEW POEMS IN THIS MONTH’S “FOLDER”

EXCERPTS from “Folder“: I have given up on importance. The only things awake to awareness are things that no longer compute when we walk to banks or teach signs in classrooms to make sense of dark matter. E equals life times time times how often you find love. ~~~~ This feeling is adjacent to a…

Amy King + Brenda Coultas @ Dominique Lévy Gallery on Saturday, September 17, 2016.

30 Poets You Should Be Reading

30 Poets You Should Be Reading A Brief Road Map for National Poetry Month April 18, 2016 By Adam Fitzgerald AMY KING Amy King’s breathtaking poetry reflects the same unwavering commitment she brings to her role at VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts: aesthetics rooted in ethics; community advocacy and intersection. King’s gift, which has earned admiration from…

Amy King @ AWP 2016

Friday, April 1, 2016 9:00 am to 10:15 am Room 402 AB, LA Convention Center, Meeting Room Level F109. More Than Numbers: How Conscientious Poetry Editors See Beyond Quotas. (Amy King, Timothy Donnelly, Airea D. Matthews, Phillip B. Williams, Lynn Melnick) This panel, featuring editors who have successfully published a diversity of poets in both magazines and…

Talking About What We Don’t Talk About: Roundtable with Eunsong Kim, Amy King, Lucas de Lima, Hoa Nguyen, Héctor Ramírez, Metta Sáma, Nikki Wallschlaeger

Roundtable @ Poetry Foundation EXCERPTS: “The quiet confidences, to me, are indicative of a larger understanding at play in the poetry world, and Lehman is only one example of such ‘powerhouses’ who seem to take advantage of that power boldly and blatantly.” ~~ “Whisper campaigns, hit jobs, passive aggressive and aggressive treatments–carried out by poets…

Young Poets Bare All: What Is a Culture? @ Poetry Foundation

I was lucky to curate this feature with THESE YOUNG POETS and THEIR BRILLIANCE: “All reading is blood.” —Carrie Lorig “On the one hand, we can continue to throw our bodies at police barricades, which we’ve done. Maybe change can be achieved that way. The biggest on-the-ground protest in allof human history, 2/15/03, wasn’t sufficient to stop…

Actual Asian Poets @ LitHub

Adam Fitzgerald curated a substantial portfolio at LitHub. From his introduction: This portfolio cannot and should not be seen as a codification nor totalizing index of Asian or Asian-American poetry. Indeed, there are many incredible writers not mentioned below (Tan Lin and Srikanth Reddy are just two examples). Yet the chance to foreground just some of…

Call and Response: The Gifts of Women Poets – Part 2

“…recognizing that women-identified poets are of intense, even transformative value, despite living in a culture that often devalues the feminine. Each writer sings out an older or no longer living poet who had a personal influence on them. What you will find is a series of anecdotes and lead-ins to the work & personhood of…

Call and Response: The Gifts of Women Poets – Part 1

More on LITERARY ACTIVISM!

EXCERPTS – Full Statements @ Poetry Foundation In other words, if I had never encountered poetry, I would never have become an activist—that is, if I, a black man who came of age poor and used to buy 5¢ candy with $1 food stamps to get change for the bus, am allowed to determine for…

What Is Literary Activism?

AT THE POETRY FOUNDATION: “WHAT IS LITERARY ACTIVISM?” Contributions by: Samiya Bashir, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Ana Božičević, Emily Brandt, Ken Chen, Melissa Febos, Suzi F. Garcia, Eunsong Kim, Jason Koo, Lynn Melnick, Shane McCrae, Laura Mullen, Héctor Ramírez, Jessica Reidy (Jezmina Von Thiele), Metta Sáma, Melissa Studdard, and Arisa White! CONTRIBUTIONS @ Poetry Foundation – http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2015/08/what-is-literary–activism/

BIG ENERGY POETS OF THE ANTHROPOCENE: WHEN ECOPOETRY THINKS CLIMATE CHANGE

Heidi Lynn Staples and I are co-editing BIG ENERGY POETS OF THE ANTHROPOCENE: WHEN ECOPOETRY THINKS CLIMATE CHANGE, a selection of poets whose praxis offers ways for us to imagine and so respond to climate change. To be published by BlazeVOX in 2016! In the meantime, please like this page! Follow the anthology’s developments,…

EXCITING NEWS! Announcing the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association) – Amy King

2015 WNBA Award I’m so happy to share the news that I join the ranks of Ann Patchett, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rachel Carson, Barbara Bush, Hon. Patricia Schroeder and Pearl Buck as the recipient of a Women’s National Book Association (WNBA) Award. The WNBA has selected Amy King, poet, professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau…

I WANT MY POETRY AND I WANT TO EAT TOO.

ORIGINALLY APPEARED @ NATIONAL POETRY MONTH DAILY I want my poetry and I want to eat too. I tell my friends I think about death all the time. It is the one certainty we know, for we are not even required to continue one breath after this one right now, and that strikes me as…

TRIUMPH OF THE WILL

“TRIUMPH OF THE WILL” @ SPORK PRESS THIS STORY IS ABOUT A BLACK OLYMPIAN (Jesse Owens), A JEWISH FILM DIRECTOR (Bud Greenspan) AND AN AMAZING WOMAN (Leni Riefenstahl ), WHO MADE ADOLF HITLER LOOK VERY, VERY GOOD. RESEARCHED & TRUE. (I WORKED FOR THE FILM DIRECTOR). Leni Riefenstahl is a witness to the shooting of Jewish…

POEMS TAKE ON ALLCAPS

NOT SURE POETRY CAN HANDLE THIS … “POPCORN PUSSY” – A SOCIAL ODE ~~~~~ READ THE RIOT @ SIMILARPEAKS ~~~~~

THIS IS NOT A POEM

“UNDERSTANDING THE POEM” “The problem flashes face forward when I want to ask the poet what she meant when she wrote poetry and she is no longer with us.” ~~~~~ DISCOVER “STOP & FRISK” @ CONNOTATION PRESS ~~~~~

STRING THEORY

STRING THEORY Try again. Embroider the earth’s arc of belly rising to fold into mountain. If you lay your head table-side, a stream trickles out, over rocks, into lunar heights. Right here beside you. The sheen of a screen replays distant ringing from a lime green phone, 1950. ~~~~~ STRING THEORY – CONTINUED @ BOSTON…

COOPERATIVE POETRY

COOPERATIVE POETRY The Rooster Moans created an online network of artists where there are no hierarchies. “It allows the students to see that, regardless of level of experience, we’re all working artists, and that being a published poet doesn’t mean that you don’t still struggle and grapple with your art, and/or obviate the need…

AMY KING

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