M.a.king Poetry at the Public Library!
Photo by Jack Scully, Brockton, MA, September, 2009
Photo by Jack Scully, Plymouth, MA, January 2009
Mignon Ariel King is an urban womanist writer who was born in Boston, Massachusetts. An alumna of Simmons College and a former English instructor, she is creator and editor of the online journals MoJo! and U.M.Ph.! She began writing poetry at age 11 and has been reading at open mics since 1998.
Ms. King’s work often reflects nothing but love for the twinkling nocturnal lights of her beloved city on the Charles River, with its world-famous athletes, rockers, seafood, baked beans, and cobbled, bricked charm. Her work has appeared in various journals and in the collection The Woods Have Words (Ibbetson Street Press), part of the three-genre autobiographical trilogy (memoir, poetry, fiction) that she has recently finished writing.
King is currently revising for publication both a novella (Concrete Faction – an urban multicultural romance) and a collection based on the poetry of Charles Bukowski (What good’s a view of the Charles…? – for a “poems of tribute” trilogy-within-a-trilogy). It took twelve years to finish the trilogy, which is actually a pentology if one wants to be technical about it, so don’t expect anything more creative than toast from her any time soon.
PS:
My name is pronounced: MIN-yin. It’s German. It means “favorite.”
“Ariel” is an androgynous sprite from Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
For a signed copy of my book, or to tell me how swell I am, e-mail me at: mojoeditor@yahoo.com
