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Amy King (born August 3, 1971) is an American poet, essayist, and activist.

Early life and education

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, King grew up in Stone Mountain, Georgia and received her B.S. in English and women's studies from Towson University. She received her M.A. in American studies (poetics concentration) at State University of New York Buffalo, and an M.F.A. from Brooklyn College in creative writing.

Career

Since 2003, King has taught English and creative writing at SUNY Nassau Community College.[1] She has also guest-lectured and conducted workshops at a number of colleges and universities, including Goddard College, Naropa University, RISD (Rhode Island School of Design), San Francisco State University, Slippery Rock University, and Salem College Center for Women Writers.

King received the 2015 WNBA Award (Women's National Book Association).[2][3] She also received The Feminist Press' "40 Under 40: The Future of Feminism" award in 2010 and the 2012 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities.[4]

In 2016, Adam Fitzgerald named King "One of the 30 Poets You Should Be Reading",[5] and she was listed as one of "13 New York Poets Changing the Lit Scene"[6] by Civil Coping Mechanisms in March 2017.

She moderates the Women's Poetry Listserv (WOMPO) and the Goodreads Poetry! Group,[7] which includes more than 20,000 members and features the monthly "Goodreads Newsletter Poetry Contest". She also serves on The Offing Magazine's Advisory Board.[8]

King has published five full-length poetry collections, including Antidotes for an Alibi (BlazeVOX Books 2005), I’m the Man Who Loves You (BlazeVOX Books 2007, Slaves to do These Things (BlazeVOX Books 2009), I Want to Make You Safe (Litmus Press 2011) and The Missing Museum (Tarpaulin Sky Press 2016).

She is co-editor of the anthology series Bettering American Poetry (Bettering Books) and, with Heidi Lynn Staples, the anthology, Big Energy Poets: Ecopoetry Thinks Climate Change (Blazevox Books 2017).

From 2010 – 2014, she co-edited the online response to the BP Gulf Oil Spill, Poets for Living Waters[9][10][11], with Heidi Lynn Staples and co-edited the PEN America Poetry Series[12] with Ana Bozicevic in 2010. For many years, she moderated the POETICS list,[13] sponsored by The Electronic Poetry Center (SUNY-Buffalo/University of Pennsylvania).

King founded and curated, from 2006, the Brooklyn-based reading series, The Stain of Poetry,[14][15][16] until 2010.

Activism

A founding member (2009)[17][18][19] of the literary arts activist organization, Vida: Women in Literary Arts, King currently serves on the Executive Board and is the press officer[20] and Editor-in-Chief of the VIDA Review.[21][22] Known for its annual report on the rates of publication between male and female authors, in 2014, the VIDA Count expanded to include race,[23] sexual orientation and writers with disabilities. The VIDA Count has been influential in rendering visible a lack of parity in contemporary American literary publishing, thus promoting industry attention and discussion around issues of bias.[24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]

In March 2015, King publicly critiqued University of Pennsylvania's adjunct lecturer Kenneth Goldsmith’s controversial performance at RISD of his poem, ""The Body of Michael Brown" in her essay, "Why Are People So Invested in Kenneth Goldsmith?".[34][35][36][37]

In August 2015, King curated and contributed to a forum for Poetry Foundation that raised the question, "What Is Literary Activism?",[35][38] which resulted in online debate about the merits of literary activism.[39][40][41][42][43][44][45]

In 2016, she spoke out about the Swedish Academy’s decision to award Bob Dylan the Noble Prize in Literature.[46][47][48][49][50]

Awards

Collections

  • The People Instruments. Pavement Saw Press. 2001. ISBN 1-886350-56-6.
  • The Citizen's Dilemma. Duration Press. 2003.
  • Antidotes for an Alibi. BlazeVOX Books. 2005. ISBN 978-0975922750.
  • I’m the Man Who Loves You. BlazeVOX Books. 2007. ISBN 978-1934289334.
  • Slaves to do These Things. BlazeVOX Books. 2009. ISBN 978-1935402312.
  • I Want to Make You Safe. Litmus Press. 2011. ISBN 978-1933959238.
  • The Missing Museum. Tarpaulin Sky Press. 2016. ISBN 978-1939460080.

Editor

  • Amy King, Vanessa Angelica Villarreal, Nikki Wallschlaeger, Sarah Clark, Airea D Matthews, Kenzie Allen, Eunsong Kim, Jason Koo, David Tomas Martinez, Hector Ramirez, Metta Sama, ed (2017). Bettering American Poetry 2015. Bettering Books. ISBN 978-0692830901.
  • Heidi Lynn Staples, Amy King, ed (2017). Big Energy Poets: Ecopoetry Thinks Climate Change. Blazevox Books. ISBN 978-1-60964-103-0.

Poems

Essays

  • "The What Else of Queer Poetry". Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Politics. 2010.
  • "On Alice Walker's 'The Color Purple'". PEN America. October 2012.
  • "BEAUTY AND THE BEASTLY PO-BIZ".The Rumpus. July 2013.
  • "Poetry: This Death Is Incomplete". Boston Review. July 2013.
  • "Poets’ Roundtable on Person and Persona". Amy King and Cate Marvin. Los Angeles Review of Books. October 2013.
  • "Whacked Out: A Case for the Advocacy of the Unlisted". Poetry Magazine. January 2014.
  • "Threat Level: Poetry". Boston Review. February 2014.
  • "WHY ARE PEOPLE SO INVESTED IN KENNETH GOLDSMITH? OR, IS COLONIALIST POETRY EASY?". VIDA Review. March 2015.
  • "Call and Response: The Gifts of Women Poets". Poetry Foundation. August 2015.
  • "Young Poets Bare All: What Is a Culture?". Poetry Foundation. August 2015.
  • "What Is Literary Activism?". Poetry Foundation. August 2015.
  • "And the Occasion Changed: A Tribute to John Ashbery". Poetry Foundation. September 2017.

Interviews

  • "AN INTERVIEW WITH AMY KING" by Elizabeth Hildreth. Bookslut. January 2010.
  • "I Like Amy King A Lot" by Roxane Gay. HTMLGIANT. March 2010.
  • "The Poetry Feminaissance" by Travis Nichols. Huffington Post. June 2010.
  • "Amy King Interview" by Derek Alger. PIF Magazine. January 2011.
  • "No Place for the Little Lyric: Should Adrienne Rich be the poet laureate of the Occupy movement?". Poetry Foundation. December 2011.
  • "Amy King: Phoned-In #16" by Luke Degnan and Gigi Augsbach. Bomb Magazine. March 2012.
  • "New York Poet, Amy King, Heads To Texas" by Catherine Lu. Houston Public Media. December 2014.
  • "Q&A: American Poetry with Amy King" at Poetry Society of America. 2014.
  • "Perspective: Amy King considers how the media represent race and police violence." Produced by Katie Klocksin. Poetry Foundation. September 2016.
  • "Sexism in the Literary World".The Center for Fiction [video]. October 2016.
  • "Bettering American Poetry with Amy King" by Loren Kleinman. Huffington Post. April 2017.
  • "Q&A with Amy King from VIDA, Feminist Watchdog" by Joanna R. Demkiewicz. The Riveter. August 2017.

References

  1. ^ King, Amy. "Faculty Page". Nassau Community College Faculty webpage. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
  2. ^ "2015 WNBA Award". WNBA. June 1, 2015. Archived from the original on June 29, 2017. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
  3. ^ "Women's National Book Association honors poet Amy King". NOLA.com. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  4. ^ "Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in Faculty Service Academic Year 2011–2012" (PDF). State University of New York. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  5. ^ "30 Poets You Should Be Reading | Literary Hub". lithub.com. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  6. ^ "#CopingWith: 13 New York Poets Changing the Lit Scene | CCM". copingmechanisms.net. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  7. ^ "¡ POETRY !". Goodreads. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  8. ^ "Amy King | The Offing". The Offing. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  9. ^ "Poets Act on Oil Spill | Poets & Writers". Poets & Writers. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  10. ^ admin (May 16, 2013). "Poets for Living Waters". Jack Kerouac School. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  11. ^ "Poets for Living Waters". Poets for Living Waters. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  12. ^ "Bon Voyage to Guest Poetry Editors Ana Božičević & Amy King – PEN America". PEN America. February 11, 2013. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  13. ^ "The Poetics List". epc.buffalo.edu. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  14. ^ "Poetry Festival Preview: Stain of Poetry". Coldfront. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  15. ^ "The Stain of Poetry Reading Series". Artvilla. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  16. ^ "Your hosts". Stain of Poetry. September 27, 2008. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  17. ^ "WOMEN IN LIT SPEAK UP AT NYU – Electric Literature". Electric Literature. October 3, 2010. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  18. ^ ""Best of 2009" and "Historical Count" | VIDA: Women in Literary Arts". www.vidaweb.org. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  19. ^ "The Count 2010 | VIDA: Women in Literary Arts". www.vidaweb.org. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  20. ^ Langlois, Jessica (April 5, 2016). "Can the Nation's Largest Writers' Conference Transcend Lit's Lack of Diversity?". L.A. Weekly. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  21. ^ "Submissions | VIDA: Women in Literary Arts". www.vidaweb.org. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  22. ^ "Vida Review | VIDA: Women in Literary Arts". www.vidaweb.org. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  23. ^ Fallon, Claire (March 30, 2016). "The Most Intersectional VIDA Count Yet Paints A Troubling Picture". HuffPost. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  24. ^ "The 2015 VIDA Count is here". New Republic. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  25. ^ "New study shows gender gap narrowing in book coverage". AP News. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  26. ^ Ha, Thu-Huong. "These are the worst magazines for women writers". Quartz. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  27. ^ Flood, Alison (March 31, 2016). "Female authors make inroads at major publications – survey". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  28. ^ "The VIDA Count Shows Just How White-Male Dominated Media Is". Bitch Media. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  29. ^ "VIDA's 2012 Count shows the literary gender byline gap isn't improving". Feministing. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  30. ^ "No progress for female bylines". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  31. ^ "How women are turning the page on literary sexism". World Economic Forum. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  32. ^ "New York Review of Books defends gender bias with snarky form letter | The Daily Dot". The Daily Dot. August 23, 2013. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  33. ^ "Love and Revolution in Egypt, Vida Counts Women Writers, and More | Poets & Writers". Poets & Writers. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  34. ^ "The Poetry of Privilege: VIDA's Amy King Responds To Kenneth Goldsmith | The Offing". The Offing. March 20, 2015. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  35. ^ a b "There's a New Movement in American Poetry and It's Not Kenneth Goldsmith". New Republic. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  36. ^ "WHY ARE PEOPLE SO INVESTED IN KENNETH GOLDSMITH? OR, IS COLONIALIST POETRY EASY? | VIDA: Women in Literary Arts". www.vidaweb.org. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  37. ^ "About That Kenny Goldsmith Piece in the New Yorker". The Rumpus.net. October 5, 2015. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  38. ^ "What Is Literary Activism? by Amy King". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. August 23, 2017. Retrieved August 23, 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  39. ^ "Responding to 'What Is Literary Activism?' by Harriet Staff". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. August 21, 2017. Retrieved August 22, 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  40. ^ "A Response from the Writers of 'What Is Literary Activism?' by Amy King". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. August 21, 2017. Retrieved August 22, 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  41. ^ "M.F.A. and Creative Writing Community Digest: August 28, 2015". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  42. ^ "Equity in Publishing: What Should Editors Be Doing? – PEN America". PEN America. October 24, 2015. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  43. ^ McArdle, Molly (February 24, 2016). ""We've Been Out Here Working": Diversity in Publishing, a Partial Reading List". Brooklyn Magazine. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  44. ^ csperez08 (August 31, 2015). "Are You a Real Literary Activist? Take the Quiz!". Craig Santos Perez. Retrieved August 22, 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  45. ^ "Ways to be a Literary Activist". UCWbLing. May 9, 2017. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  46. ^ Sisario, Ben; Alter, Alexandra (October 17, 2016). "Bob Dylan, the Newest Nobel Laureate, Maintains His Reticence". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  47. ^ Contrera, Jessica; Contrera, Jessica (October 23, 2016). "Bob Dylan, Bill Murray and Henry Kissinger: When honorees don't want their prize". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  48. ^ Stack, Liam (October 22, 2016). "Bob Dylan's Silence on Nobel Prize Is Called 'Impolite and Arrogant' by Academy Member". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  49. ^ "Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize mention deleted from his website". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  50. ^ "Bob Dylan and the Significance of Not Signifying Anything". Jewish Currents. October 24, 2016. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
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