She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change.
Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” -Allen Ginsberg.Īmy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” -Gustave Flaubert “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” -Charles Simic “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” -Boris Pasternak If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” -Donald Hall “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” -Yevgeny Zamyatin “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” -Anne Sexton "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." - Carl Sandburg Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!)
Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry.
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