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Amy King

Of her most recent book from Litmus Press, I Want to Make You Safe, John Ashbery described Amy King’s poems as bringing “abstractions to brilliant, jagged life, emerging into rather than out of the busyness of living.” Safe was one of the Boston Globe’s Best Poetry Books of 2011. The Missing Museum is forthcoming in 2014 from Kore Press. King also teaches English & Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College, co-edits Poets for Living Waters, and works with VIDA: Women in Literary Arts.
  • Amy King

    Beauty and the Beastly Po-Biz, Part 2

    You can read Part 1 here. Speaking of clothes, one standout opportunity for the heralded “blockage” or disruption of capital that seems to have been missed occurred at the site of capitalism’s convergence: the White House. Kenneth Goldsmith was invited…

  • Amy King

    Beauty and the Beastly Po-Biz, Part 1

    We can’t see the forest for the trees. Think high school cliques. Think think tanks that figure “us” out for us. In their equations, you’re either obedient, an adherent, or expendable / inconsequential. You’re in or you’re out. With us…