This week’s Monday Must Read is The Missing Museum, winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize, by Amy King. John Ashbery described Amy’s poems in I Want to Make You Safe (Litmus Press, 2011) as bringing “abstractions to brilliant, jagged life, emerging into rather than out of the busyness of living.” The book was named one of the Boston Globe’s Best Poetry Books of 2011. King is also the author of the poetry collections Slaves To Do These Things(Blazevox, 2009), I’m the Man Who Loves You (Blazevox, 2007), and Antidotes for an Alibi (Blazevox, 2005). Her chapbooks include Kiss Me with the Mouth of Your Country(Dusie Press, 2007), The Good Campaign (2006), The Citizen’s Dilemma (2003), andThe People Instruments (Pavement Saw Press, 2002). Her poems have been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes, and her essays have appeared in Boston Review, Poetry, andThe Rumpus.
King joins the ranks of Ann Patchett, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rachel Carson, Barbara Bush, and Pearl Buck as the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). She was also honored by The Feminist Press as one of the “40 Under 40: The Future of Feminism” awardees, and she received the 2012 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities.
King serves on the executive board of VIDA: Woman in Literary Arts and is currently co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She also moderates the Women’s Poetry Listserv (WOMPO) and the Goodreads Poetry! Group. She teaches English and Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. Her poems have been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes, and she has been the recipient of a MacArthur Scholarship for Poetry. Amy King was also the 2007Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere. Check her latest blog entries at Boston Review, Poetry Magazine and the Rumpus.
She co-edited Poets for Living Waters with Heidi Lynn Staples, co-edited the PEN Poetry Series and Esque Magazine with Ana Bozicevic and, for many years, moderated the Poetics List, sponsored by The Electronic Poetry Center (SUNY-Buffalo/University of Pennsylvania). She has also guest-lectured and conducted workshops at a number of colleges and universities, including Goddard College, Naropa University, RISD (Rhode Island School of Design), San Francisco State University, Slippery Rock University, and, forthcoming this spring, the Center for Women Writers at Salem College.
Buy The Missing Museum!
https://tarpaulinsky.com/amy-king/
Find Amy’s Other Books!
http://www.amazon.com/Amy-King/e/B004GEYJGC
Read More from Amy Online!
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/amy-king#about
https://tarpaulinsky.com/Chronic/amy-king.html
http://yr.olemiss.edu/piece/king/
http://www.3ammagazine.com/poetry/2004/sep/king.html
http://therumpus.net/2012/01/death-is-always-a-rumpus-original-poem-by-amy-king/
http://therumpus.net/2013/07/beauty-and-the-beastly-po-biz-part-1/
http://therumpus.net/2013/07/beauty-and-the-beastly-po-biz-part-2/
Interviews
http://www.bookslut.com/features/2010_01_015554.php
http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs143/1110349281835/archive/1121363131353.html
Hear Amy Read
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3bunzTN3GY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijPfs3WEfbU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3OT8WbxWeQ
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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