Rockin' the open mic!
photo by chad parenteau, host of stone soup poetry – 2010
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Feature at “Boston Poetry Marathon” (BPL, April 2011)
photo by chad parenteau
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Mignon Ariel King was born in Boston’s City Hospital in 1964. She is an alumna of the Graduate Program in English at Simmons College. Ms. King created M.A.P.S.-O.N.E. HQ through which she edits an online journal and organizes poetry events. She also edits the online gritty-city journal U.M.Ph.! Prose. Her autobiography in three genres (memoir, poetry trilogy, novella) is based on a lifetime spent in Greater Boston.
Ms. King’s first published poetry collection is The Woods Have Words (Ibbetson Street Press, 2009). Volume two is a tribute to the poetry of Bukowski. Volume three, Words of Flight, will be a series of dramatic monologues of New Englanders, dedicated to her late mother who grew up in New Hampshire.
Ms. King’s second novella-in-progress (The Godshine of Squeaky Cobb) is set in her childhood neighborhood of Roxbury, Massachusetts; she is also writing a poetic synopsis of Moby-Dick. She has been reading at open mics since 1998.
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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, paid by check, or to tell me how swell I am, e-mail me at: mojoeditor@yahoo.com
