Enjoying MAX at the beach The wonderful Laurie Price, poet/ artist / editor, takes MAX SEES RED on Mexican beach vacation. She has this to say: “Wonderful! Plus structure & suspense & character development.” Max Sees Red, by Martha King. … Read More
Comment & a review “I love Martha King’s astutely roving eyes & ears, what & who she notices, how deftly she weaves perceptive commentary in & out of encounters, & especially how accurately she pegs the now faint smells of … Read More
New on Yorty’s blog Lovely episode on Don Yorty’s blog — combining images from Basil King’s Green Man Comes to 4th Street portraits with a reading by Baz of Part 7 of his long poem with the same name. When … Read More
Celebrating YUKO OTOMO’s new book Martha and Basil King join in celebrating YUKO OTOMO’s new book Anonymous Landscape (from Lithic Press) is a marvelous full-length meditation on anonymity and civility among other things. The Kings are delighted to join John … Read More
Fine review of my memoir in Golden Handcuffs Excited to let everyone know that Ian Brinton has reviewed my memoir, Outside/Inside in issue 27, Vol 2, of Golden Handcuffs Literary Review. A very thoughtful review that places my book in … Read More
MAX SEES RED — is King’s first-ever novel, a murder mystery in which a painter named Max tries to find out who murdered a young literary editor in her Hudson Valley summer house. One of his oldest friends, an experimental … Read More
We have a new website name You may still use www.basilking.net but when the home page opens you will see the new domain name: basilking-marthaking.com This is the domain name going forward. The new name makes it clear that works … Read More
tears in the fence, #69, Spring 2019 is now available. This issue ranges wide as tears does — and includes Basil King’s new poem, “Pick Up a Stitch — Drop a Stitch,“ work by Laurie Duggan, and this comment by … Read More