PRESS Breaking the Ice With Pints and Poetry @Wall Street Journal The first hour involved cocktails at the Housing Works Bookstore and Café in SoHo. Then there were readings by Colson Whitehead (“Sag Harbor”), Emily St. John Mandel (“The Singers Gun”) and poet Amy King, who runs a popular poetry group on Goodreads. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 20…
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…
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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EXCERPT: “Without volunteers, VIDA would not exist. In fact, we created a one-page handout for the release of this past count because ‘What can I do to help?’ has become a recurring mantra indicative of how much larger VIDA is than the faces the organization has come to be associated with. VIDA has tapped into…
BlazeVOX [books] & Its Poets: An Offsite, Really Hip, unAWP Reading: Thursday, March 1, 2012 6:00 pm until 8:30 p.m Revolving Door presents a spectacular sampling of BlazeVOX poets … setting out to dazzle 100% of the masses–that’s 99% + 1%. Among the poets who will prove themselves worthy sparks of divinity are: Amanda Auchter…
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