Interview with Amy King, by Stacia M. Fleegal

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#BLauthor5 is poet Amy King. If you haven't checked out her poems yet, do that here and let us know what you think in the comments.

The art slideshow for this post is by Joseph R. Trombatore.

For now, here's a conversation I had with Amy recently about activism, her poetic process, and some of her current favorite writers:

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Of I Want to Make You Safe (Litmus Press), John Ashbery describes Amy King's poems as bringing “abstractions to brilliant, jagged life, emerging into rather than out of the busyness of living.” Safe was one of Boston Globe’s Best Poetry Books of 2011. The Missing Museum is forthcoming in 2014 from Kore Press. King teaches Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College and works with VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. Check her latest blog entries at Boston Review, Poetry Magazine and the Rumpus.

Be sure to check back next week for our interview with Amy.

For now, here are two new poems by her, with comments by co-ed Stacia M. Fleegal afterward: