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Amy Key

Amy Key’s first collection, Luxe, was published in 2013. She is also the author of two pamphlets: Instead of Stars (tall-lighthouse, 2009) and History (If A Leaf Falls Press, 2016). She co-edits online journal Poems in Which.

Poem to Poem (2) – conversation with Kathleen Ossip

This is the second part of Amy and Kathleen’s conversation: you can read the first part here. Following the success of our inaugural Poem to Poem, for our second feature in the series we invited Amy Key and Kathleen Ossip to hold a transatlantic conversation. The first step in putting together a Poe...

Poem to Poem (1) – conversation with Amy Key

This is the first part of Amy and Kathleen’s conversation: you can read the second part here. Following the success of our inaugural Poem to Poem, for our second feature in the series we invited Amy Key and Kathleen Ossip to hold a transatlantic conversation. The first step in putting together a Po...

The Best Is Yet to Come by Amy Key

I was ashamed, but undaunted (my epithet?). / —Maggie Nelson / / / i. / / The heart is permanently gory. / / ii. / / I imbue all this pausing with great importance / but phoniness slides in like one more drink. / / iii. / / I reached too hard for courage / and pushed it furth...