Martha King’s most recent book, Seventeen Walking Sticks
(Stop Press, 1997) is a cycle of poems in response to drawings
by Basil King. 
   Her other books of poetry are Weather (New Rivers Press),
Women and Children First (2+2 Press), Islamic Miniature (Lee/Lucas Press)
and Monday Through Friday  (Zelot Press). Her poems have appeared
in small press magazines including IO, Chelsea, Mulch, Ikon, Contact II,
New American Writing, Synaesthetic, Optimism (Czech Republic) and
Radical Poetics (U.K.). Her prose/fiction and essays have appeared in 
Hanging Loose, North Carolina Literary Review, House Organ, Bomb,
St. Mark’s Poetry Project Newsletter, and First Intensity, among others. 
   Selected works are in the following anthologies: A Decade and Then
Some/Intrepid Anthology, Allen Deloach, editor (Intrepid Press); Woman
and Nature, Susan Griffin, editor (Harper & Row); Sparks of Fire: Blake
in a New Age, James Bogan and Fred Gross, editors (North Atlantic Books);
Pegansen fran Prarien, Peter Trachtenberg, editor (Hammarstrom & Aberg);
Chain, Jena Osman and Juliana Spahr, editors (University of Buffalo); The
Taking of Hands, C. W. Truesdale, editor (New Rivers Press). 
   Mrs. King was the editor of the poetry zine Giants Play Well in the
Drizzle which floated free to readers from 1983 to 1992, and the much
shorter lived Northern Lights Poetry Chaplets Series (1993-95). She is
a professional science writer and is currently director of publications
for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in the U.S. where she edited
the prize-winning quarterly magazine, InsideMS. 
   Mrs. King is married to the painter Basil King, whose art work has
appeared in a number of her books, including Weather and Islamic Miniature.