Takako Arai

Norma Cole

Kate Colby

Danielle Collobert

Xue Di

kari edwards

Isabelle Garron

Roberto Harrison

Jennifer Hayashida

Brenda Iijima

Jeffrey Jullich

Ayane Kawata

Amy King

Malinda Markham

Kiriu Minashita

Sawako Nakayasu

Yu Nakai

Kyong-Mi Park

Sarah Riggs

Leslie Scalapino

Jennifer Scappettone

Ryoko Sekiguchi

Brandon Shimoda

Eva Sjödin

Kerri Sonnenberg

Cole Swensen

Stacy Szymaszek

Mark Tardi

Keith Waldrop

Chet Wiener

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Amy King

Amy KingAmy King's most recent books are Slaves to Do These Things  and I’m the Man Who Loves You, both from Blazevox. She is currently preparing a book of interviews with the poet, Ron Padgett, and co-edits Esque Magazine with Ana Bozicevic. Amy also works with VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, and teaches English and Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College, as well as conducting workshops at such places as the San Francisco State University Poetry Center, Summer Writing Program @ Naropa University, Slippery Rock University and Rhode Island School of Design.  Her poems have been nominated for numerous Pushcart Prizes, she was a Lambda Literary finalist, and she was the recipient of a MacArthur Scholarship for Poetry. Amy founded and curated, from 2006, the Brooklyn-based reading series, The Stain of Poetry, until 2010.  Readings, reviews and more @ amyking.org .



I Want to Make You Safe

VerseDaily features "The Identity in My Crisis". February 2012.
PoetryDaily features "The White of Sacre Couer Against a Blue Parisian Sky". February 2012.
Christopher Higgs for HTML Giant January 27, 2012.
Michelle Gillett for The Rumpus review. January 14, 2012.
Poets & Writers video: "Lidija Dimkovska Has Made a Bomb of My Eyes." January 3, 2012.
Coldfront's list of Top 30 Poetry Books of 2011, with review by John Deming. January 1, 2012.
Boston Globe award: among the best poetry books of 2011. December 18, 2011.
ConnotationPress.com review. December 2011.
The French Exit blog review. November 22, 2011.
Small Press Distribution Poetry Best-Seller. November - December 2011.

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