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Amy King

Amy King is author of I Want to Make You Safe and co-editor of the PEN Poetry Series.

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Arts in Society

Poet's Sampler: Ocean Vuong

Congratulations to Ocean Vuong, 2014 recipient of a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship. Read "Ode to

Amy King, Ocean Vuong

Forum Response

The Stars are Calling, Skin Sacks

The Stars are Calling, Skin Sacks   See, your chemical warfare is no warfare I Bend over

Amy King

Poetry

Last year was big for Big Brother, and 2014 is shaping up similarly. The queasy ethics of observation continue to...

Poems on Surveillance

Andrew Ridker, Cathy Park Hong, Rae Armantrout, John Ashbery, Robert Pinsky, Charles Bernstein, Harmony Holiday, Noelle Kocot, Richard Greenfield, Maureen N. McLane, Amy King, Jennifer Kronovet, Jessica Baran

Arts in Society

Threat Level: Poetry

The monster gone rogue.

Amy King

The Urn and the Urinal (Poetry Where Death Goes)

Click here to read part 1 of Amy King's two-part essay on poetry and

Amy King

Poetry: This Death Is Incomplete

  Read Part 2 of Amy King's essay on poetry and death.             All grass is

Amy King

Poetry

Try again. Embroider the earth’s arc of belly rising
to fold into mountain. If you lay your head...

String Theory

Amy King

Poetry

Too bad about the plate, the shadowbox, the twisted book.
The universe conspired, a felony against your...

One Bird Behind One Bird

Amy King

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