Damon King

DAMON KING, formerly Gary Duff, is a Chilean-Mapuche-American poet, journalist, photographer, and publisher based in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. A two-time Gracie Award winner, he co-hosts Calliope's Corner with its founder, former Nassau County Poet Laureate Paula Curci — a poetry and arts program on the air for twenty-five years. A staff member of WRHU during its five Marconi Award wins for Non-Commercial Station of the Year, he went on to host The Gary Duff Show and The New American Kitchen on WOR — the largest talk radio station in the nation — where both held the distinction of highest rated programs in their time slots. He has interviewed Madeleine Albright, Elie Wiesel, Anthony Bourdain, Caitlyn Jenner, and Donald Trump, among others. His writing has appeared in Newsday, The Huffington Post, Maxim, Modern Luxury, Whitewall, and Windmill Literary Journal.

He is the founder of At Large Media Group, an independent publishing and media company, a member of Brooklyn Poets, and the author of the forthcoming poetry collection Alchemy and Its Furies. His current project, Crossing Greenpoint, catalogues the cultural life of a Brooklyn neighborhood in twenty-eight poems, photographs, and documentary videos — a work in the tradition of Whitman's witness. He has lived in New York City his entire life.