Considering Art Podcast: Basil King painter and poet
Bob Chaundy host of Considering Art Podcast interviews Basil King
https://consideringart.com/2024/10/14/considering-art-podcast-basil-king-painter-and-poet/… Read More
Basil King, Russian Novel 2023 Drawing Series: In a new Video
May 2024: Don Yorty sets King’s Russian Novel drawings to music in a beautiful new video. Yorty writes: “Basil King sketched forty-three faces with charcoal, and as he sketched them, he began to call them his Russian Novel. When Basil introduced … Read More
Basil King’s Illuminations
February 2024: Announcing a wonderful new video just completed by Don Yorty of Basil King’s 2001 series Rimbaud Illuminations. View Don Yorty’s blog post here. View the video directly here. Don Yorty writes “The Illuminations were drawn in 37 days. Basil had … Read More
January 2023 – New Publication: In Delacroix’s Garden by Basil King and Yuko Otomo
Yuko Otomo and Basil King compared how captured they and their respective partners — the late Steve Dalachinsky and Martha King — were by their separate visits to Delacroix’s house, garden, and studio tucked in a cul-de-sac on the Left Bank … Read More
AFTER THOUGHT paintings & poems Basil King (2022)
This latest collection, published by Granary Books, stems from a recent series of paintings that postdate King’s 2019 project, “Looking for the Green Man.” After producing these fifty portrait variations, King “wanted to do something quiet, possibly beautiful, a place of meditation.”
This book is 11 x 15 in., bound in lavender cloth over boards with Mylar dust jacket by Judith Ivry. The 16 page spreads feature a poem and a facing painting, and are printed on Hahnemühle paper by Jason Walz. This is from an edition of 20 copies, numbered and signed by King.… Read More
Basil King essay “The Past is as Present as I Want the Future to Be” (2022)
This essay is one of 25 interviews and essays in “On Becoming a Poet” by writers associated with Marsh Hawk Press. Al Filreis of Writers House says this anthology is “gratifying not a how-to for becoming a poet. These are … Read More
Basil King art is featured in Hurricane Review, April 2022
King art is on the cover of Hurricane Review #19, with six more works all nicely reproduced in color throughout. To request copies of this annual literary mag, write to: Department of English & Communication, Pensacola State College, 1000 College … Read More
Our new website name
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