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 AMY
SMALL-MCKINNEY
Amy Small-McKinney's second chapbook, Clear
Moon, Frost, was
published, in 2009, by Finishing Line Press. In her recommendation
blurb, poet, Molly Peacock, said of Amy's work, "Her
sumptuous surreality taps directly into dream. Her wise
metaphors are the gold that comes from walking into the
furnace of life-and-death experiences with true faith.“
In 2004, her chapbook, In 2004, her chapbook, Body
of Surrender, (Finishing
Line Press) was showcased at Poet’s House in New York.
She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2004 and again
in 2006. Her work has appeared in a number of journals,
including The Cortland Review, The Pedestal Magazine,
ForPoetry, Elixir Press, Mad Poets Review,
upstreet, amphibi.us,
Rio Grande Review, and Wild River Review.
Small-McKinney was guest editor for the June 2006 issue
of The Pedestal Magazine and interviewed poet, Bruce
Smith, for their April 2006 issue. In 2011, she was awarded
the Toni Brown Memorial Scholarship, selected by poet, Peter
Murphy and faculty of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway.
Statement
from 2011 MCPL Celebrity Judge Christopher Bursk:
"I
was immediately won over by the complexity of the language
in the deceptively local poem "Dillsburg, PA,"
a poem hardly provincial in its immersion of us in the
syntax and in the setting." This poet is not afraid
to try all the tools available in poetry, all the ways
it can take form on the page, all the ways it can tease
and mystify and provoke us..."
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