Sunday, October 2nd at 6 PM-7:30 at the Bowery Poetry Club. 308 Bowery, New York, New York, 10012 Tickets: $10 online. ,$15 at the door. http://www.brownpapertickets.com Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Womens National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the…
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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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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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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…
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…
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…
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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
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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…
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…
All women welcome! This listserv exists to identify, discuss and support issues related to women in publishing, writing and related to the annual AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) Conference. These issues include, but are not limited to, childcare, publishing, safety concerns, affordability / economic barriers, panel proposals, and more. The 2017 AWP Conference…
Developing the conversation on issues of diversity and pay equity is crucial today, especially in the publishing industry, which employs a large number of women and publishes books and articles for broad and diverse audiences. Four influential voices within the literary world will discuss the necessity of analyzing and documenting the make-up of the workforce,…
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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…
February 22 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Free Date: February 22 Time: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Cost: Free Organizers Venue Shrine Music Venue 2271 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd New York, 10030 United States
‘Literature is against us’: In Conversation with Anne Boyer BY AMY KING If you don’t know Anne Boyer’s work, you should. She’s a fierce intellect, tremendous poet, and laudable person. I’m grateful she spent time untangling my meandering questions. Her new book, Garments Against Women, is just out from Ahsahta Press, a perfect fit for Boyer’s…
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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…
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…
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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…
“…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…
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“…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…
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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…
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/
The Enclave Reading Series returns OCTOBER 24, with a powerhouse line-up. The triple brilliance of Michael Cunningham, Darryl Pinckney, and Amy King all on the same bill. As usual, the lights will be dim, the bar will be open, and admission is free. Don’t miss this one! Saturday October 24 5:00 – 7:00 PM Cake…
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ONE-DAY RETREAT IN THE CATSKILLS – AMY KING & MELISSA STUDDARD! Reclaiming Eve, Lilith, Medusa & Kali: Poetry as Pandoric Praxis DATE: AUGUST 8, 2015 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,…
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AMY KING – THE MISSING MUSEUM Co-winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize AUTHOR STATEMENT Nothing that is complicated may ever be simplified, but rather catalogued, cherished, exposed. The Missing Museum spans art, physics & the spiritual, including poems that converse with the sublime and ethereal. They act through ekphrasis, apostrophe & alchemical conjuring.…
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