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
Lunar Chandelier Press Presents a Virtual Reading Basil King & Charles Borkhuis Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. To Receive the Zoom link – Please email Martha King Basil King has been painting for over seven decades and writing since … Read More
READING to celebrate Live Mag #19 At Poetry Electric “Freedom and Beauty On the line” Poetry by Andrei Codrescu, Lydia Cortes, Amber Atiya, Gregory Crosby, John Yau and Basil King Dance with Yoshiko Chuma Art by Moses Ros and … 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
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
Ammiel Alcalay and Tiokasin Ghosthorse are the Prose Pros on Thursday, May 3. 6:30 to 7:45. (Also good food and good company.) We will pass the hat for the readers. Hope to see you there. Avenue A @ 6th Street. … Read More
Basil King’s new book, History Now, Marsh Hawk Press, 2017, is here. It is the latest segment in what poet Laurie Duggan is calling King’s epic, Learning to Draw. Eileen Tabios in her online “poetry engagement” Galetea Ressurects, calls it HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. … Read More