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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

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

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

Arts in Society

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

Amy King

Content From This Author

Arts in Society

Poet's Sampler: Ocean Vuong

Poems on Surveillance

Forum Response

The Stars are Calling, Skin Sacks

Arts in Society

Threat Level: Poetry

The Urn and the Urinal (Poetry Where Death Goes)

Poetry: This Death Is Incomplete

String Theory

One Bird Behind One Bird

“Marx’s Old Mole is Right Beneath the Surface”

An Antiracist Agenda for Medicine

The New Politics of Higher Education

Why We Shouldn't Compare Transracial to Transgender Identity

With Gay Adoption Decision, Will the Supreme Court Erode the Regulatory State?

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