About: Amy King

Amy King is the author of four collections of poetry: Slaves to Do These Things, I'm the Man Who Loves You, and Antidotes for an Alibi (a Lambda Book Award finalist), all from Blazevox Books, and the forthcoming I Want to Make You Safe (Litmus Press). King moderates the Poetics List (SUNY-Buffalo/University of Pennsylvania), the Women's Poetry Listserv (WOMPO) and the Goodreads Poetry! Group. She also teaches English and Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College and is currently preparing a book of interviews with the poet, Ron Padgett. King co-edits Poets for Living Waters with Heidi Lynn Staples and Esque Magazine with Ana Bozicevic. Visit her current site here.

Posts by Amy King:

Biting The Hand: VIDA Women Discuss Their Selection For The Best American Series

We’ve arrived with the numbers for the Best American series, interested to see how women fare on the “Best American” front. Parity has eluded us again. Moreover, your work has appeared, at some point, in these anthologies, and now you’re playing for Team VIDA! While our goals are to point out imbalances, query and explore the implied bias, I’m wondering if you all feel a little conflicted, as though you’re biting the proverbial hand that feeds or, at least, has praised you? (more…)

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY’S “BEST BOOKS OF 2010″

From Publishers Weekly: “This year we took our annual slugfest to the pub underneath our new office and came up with a list of the year’s top 100 books that could be our best ever.” VIDA takes a look at the outcome of PW’s “slugfest” and considers the results in light of last year’s breakdown. Cheers!

VIDA Interview with Anne Waldman: “From the Larynx”

A feminine academe could bring the poetry calling and practice back to the source, and explore the feminine history of this literary outrider world. And it’s happening already.

COUNTING THE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS’ 2010 AWARDS

This month we take a look at the Academy Awards given between 1995 – 2010. While we were pleased to find a number of the Academy prizes reflected a gender-balance, the few that reflected what should be the “old” balance, presented new questions to consider.

Amy King Talks with Christian Teresi, Conference Director of AWP

“I talk to a lot of attendees––strangers, colleagues, and friends––about which events standout and which events they think didn’t work particularly well. Ultimately, the AWP conference has very little to do with what I think anyway; what matters is what the AWP members and the conference attendees think. Though I don’t get to see much of the conference, I feel very lucky to be able to honestly say I love my job.”

VIDA counts Publishers Weekly in 2010

This month, we counted the number of books reviewed by authors’ gender in the 2010 issues of Publishers Weekly (through the August 23 issue). We hope you’ll join us in wondering aloud what these numbers can tell us about current publishing trends.

Arielle Greenberg on “Gynocentric Anthems,” the Gurlesque, and Creative Partnerships

“I actually think there could be another kind of anthem, a more complicated and nebulous anthem that nonetheless loses none of its riot or exuberance, and I love the idea of a gynocentric anthem: I’ve been really interesting in reading and writing such poems.”

"Best of 2009" and "Historical Count"

The Best of 2009 lists are held under the lens of gender parity.