KIM
ROBERTS
is the editor of Beltway
Poetry Quarterly and author of two books of poems, The
Kimnama (Vrzhu
Press, 2007), and The Wishbone Galaxy (Washington Writers
Publishing House, 1994). She has been featured in numerous anthologies,
including American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie
Mellon University Press), The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel
(No Tell Books), Cabin Fever (The Word Works), Poetic
Voices Without Borders (Gival Press), DC Poets Against
the War (Argonne Hotel), Hungry As We Are (Washington
Writers Publishing House), and The First Yes: Poems About Communicating
(Dryad Press). She has published widely in literary journals throughout
the US, as well as in Canada, Ireland, France, Brazil, and New
Zealand.
Poems by Ms. Roberts
have been set to music by an alternative rock band, Arc of Ones,
and by classical composer Daron Hagen, and several have been choreographed
by Jane Franklin Dance Company.
Roberts has
done extensive research on writers with ties to Washington, DC.
She developed a tour of the greater U Street neighborhood called
"The 'Harlem' Renaissance in DC," to be presented at
the Split This Rock Festival: Poems of Provocation and Witness
in March 2008. In April 2008, her self-guided walking tour of
sites related to F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby
will be published by the Humanities Council of Washington in conjunction
with the city-wide celebration, The Big Read. "Zora Neale
Hurston's Washington" was published by the Humanities Council
for the Big Read in 2007. Her research on Walt Whitmans
ten years as a resident of Washington, DC has been published in
The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, as well as being featured
in articles in The Washington Post and The Washington
Times, on radio programs on WAMU and WFPW, and in panel presentations
at Rutgers University, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,
and at the annual Washington Historical Studies Conference. She
was the Coordinator of a city-wide festival in 2005, "DC
Celebrates Whitman: 150 Years of Leaves of Grass."
Ms. Roberts is the
recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities,
the DC Commission on the Arts, and the Humanities Council of Washington.
She has been awarded writers residencies from eleven artist
colonies: the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation,
Mesa Refuge, Ucross Foundation, Ragdale Foundation, New York Mills
Arts Retreat, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Hidden River
Arts Retreat, Artists Enclave at I-Park, Blue Mountain Center,
and Millay Colony for the Arts.