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Amy King Poet, Editor, Curator, Educator

Amy King

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ABOUT

Amy King is the author of I’m the Man Who Loves You and Antidotes for an Alibi, both from Blazevox Books, The People Instruments (Pavement Saw Press), Kiss Me With the Mouth of Your Country (Dusie Press), and forthcoming, Slaves to Do These Things (Blazevox Books) and I Want to Make You Safe.

Amy edits the Poetics List, sponsored by The Electronic Poetry Center (SUNY-Buffalo/University of Pennsylvania), moderates the Women’s Poetry Listserv (WOMPO) and the Goodreads Poetry! Group, and teaches English and Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. Her poems have been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes, and she has been the recipient of a MacArthur Scholarship for Poetry. Amy King was also the 2007 Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere. She is currently editing an anthology, The Urban Poetic, forthcoming from Factory School.

For information on the reading series Amy co-curates, go to The Stain of Poetry: A Reading Series blog or visit her current blog here.

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EDITORIAL WORK

Upcoming Works

  • * FUSION IS THE ONLY THUMB

    * I WANT TO MAKE YOU SAFE

    * THIS OPERA OF PEACE

Causes I Support

  • PETA

Publishers

  • BlazeVox Books
    Dusie Press
    Pavement Saw

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