Selected Anthologies

Poem, Home: An Anthology of Ars Poetica, Paper Kite Press, 2009

Lavanderia: A Mixed Load of Women, Wash and Word , San Diego City Works Press, 2009



Poetic Voices Without Borders 2, Gival Press, 2009



Poetic Voices Without Borders, Gival Press, 2005.

Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-Po Listserv. Red Hen Press, 2008.

Family Pictures: Poems and Photographs Celebrating Our Loved Ones. Capital BookFest, 2007.



The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel - Second Floor.
No Tell Books, 2007.



The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel
. No Tell Press, 2006.






Only the Sea Keeps: Poetry of the Tsunami
. Rupa & Co (New Delhi, India), and Bayeaux Arts (Calgary, Canada), 2005.

Cabin Fever: Poets at Joaquin Miller’s Cabin 1984-2001, The Word Works, 2004.

DC Poets Against the War: An Anthology, Argonne House Press, 2004.

American Poetry: The Next Generation, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2000.

 

Audio Recordings, CDs & Video

"Kim Roberts on Broomes Island..." (Video), June 29, 2007.

"The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress," Web cast (Audio)
Poetry reading with Hilary Tham, Karren Alenier, and Rose Solari, hosted by Grace Cavalieri, 2005.


The Coffee House—In Verse, Montgomery County Public TV, 2005.

"Golden" (Video)
"The Back of My Hand" (Video)

 

Poetry Alive at Iota: 10th Anniversary CD, (CD), Minimus Press, 2005.
Features Kim Roberts, Grace Cavalieri, Hiram Larew, Sunil Freeman, Judith McCombs, Reuben Jackson, Patricia Gray, others.

31 Arlington Poets (CD), Paycock Press, 2004.
Features Kim Roberts, Karren L. Alenier, Rei Berroa, John Elsberg, Bernadette Geyer, Robert L. Giron, Tod Ibrahim, Martha Sanchez-Lowery, Miles David Moore, Richard Peabody, M.A. Schaffner, Hilary Tham, others.

Love in a Life & Other Works for Voice and Piano by Daron Hagen (CD), Arsis Audio, 1999. Works for voice and piano; includes settings of poems by Kim Roberts, Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, Lord Byron, Theodore Roethke, Walt Whitman, Paul Muldoon, William Blake, John Keats, others.

 

Plays

The Distressway and I'll Give You Flowers, Ghoti Magazine. Issue 7, 2006.






Dave’s Birthday
, staged reading sponsored by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 2001.






The Language of Love: An Exploration of the Alphabet in Twenty-Six Parts, Uncommon Repertory, Bethesda, MD, 1997.

America, Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, Washington, DC, 1995.

Kathy Keler - Symbolic Alphabet



Sex and the Symbol Woman
, collaboration with visual artist Kathy Keler, sponsored by Pandora, ArtScience Warehouse, Washington, DC, 1992.

 

Selected Poetry Online

Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Five poems

Week of August 17, 2009
"Labels"
"My Imaginary Husband as a Banker"
"I Don't Have a Husband, I Have a Nutritionist"
"The Testicles of My Imaginary Husband"
"My Imaginary Husband"

Week of June 20, 2005
"In Virginia"
"Very Very"
"Light"
"New England"
"The Living Daylights"

"Hearing Loss," Issue 2:3, 2009.
"Pantoum with Catheter and Total Parenteral Nutrition," Issue 1:3, 2008.






SWR: Southern Women's Review

Summer 2009, "Bilingual"

Spring 2009, "Water is Always Available to the Animals of the Sea"

Not Just Air
Issue 8, December 2008
"Davy Crockett, After Losing
the Presidency to Martin Van Buren,"
Nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Prize

Issue 7, November 2007
Excerpts from The Kimnama

Issue 2, May 2005
"Her Hair"






Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue

Issue #10, June 2008,
"The Shipwreck"







Issue # 3, May 2008,
"IUDs"






Glass: A Journal of Poetry

Vol. 1, Issue 2, June 2
008, "Summer Rain"

The Mickle Street Review
No. 19/20, Spring 2008
"Walt Whitman's Brain" and "American Herring Gull" (PDF)

No. 15, Summer 2002.
"Fowler And Welles’ Phrenological Cabinet" and "The Apparition"







Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry

March 2008, "Siamese Twins"

Issue 4, 2008
"I am Looking at My Face," "Since You've Been Gone," and "Binge"


Umbrella, Issue 6, Spring 2008, "Grotto of the Redemption"

Survivor's Review, Vol. IV, 2007, "Daily Radiation"








Switched-on Gutenberg

"St. Anthony Preaching to the Fish," Vol. 10, 2006.
Sacrifice,” Vol. III, No. 2, 1998.

Tattoo HighwayTattoo Highway, Issue 12, 2006, "The Plastic Cup"

ArLiJo, Gival Press, Issue #2, January 2006, Three poems

Mi POesias, Volume 19, Issue 1, 2005, "Dahabieh"

Ellipsis..., Westminster College, 2000, "Her Hair"

 


Selected Non-Fiction Online





"Book Review: Walt Whitman's Franklin Evans, White Crane, Issue #75, Winter 2008"
"Book Review: Emily Dickinson's Herbarium," White Crane, Issue #73, Summer 2007.







“150 Years After Leaves of Grass: A Look at Whitman and the African Diaspora,” SeeingBlack, June 1, 2005.


“Whitman in Washington,” Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 4, Fall 2003.

“Hell’s Bells,” Smithsonian Magazine, May 2002.








"Ascension: An Ending," Special Issue on the Ascension Reading Series,
Guest edited by Kim Roberts, Washington Review, Vol. XXVI, No. 6, April/May 2001.

 

Selected Reviews, Interviews, and Press Coverage




National Endowment of the Arts, NEA Podcasts.
"Duke Ellington: Jazz Musician, Composer, Bandleader," July 15, 2010.
"U Street NW," July 8, 2010







Black Pearls Magazine,
"Intimate Conversation with Kim Roberts," July 2010.





Poetry Instigator, George Mason University, "Interview with Beltway Poetry Quarterly's Kim Roberts" by Lucy Biederman, October 6, 2009

Post No Ills, "A 495 Nine to Five: Five Questions for Kim Roberts" by Kyle Dargan, August 7, 2008







Review of The Kimnama by Kimberly L. Becker, Ghoti, Issue 16, Fall 2008





"An Interview with Kim Roberts," by Brandy Foster, Amistad, Spring 2008
With two poems:
"Mr. Jones Makes Poetry"
"The Book"

Review of The Kimnama by stevenallenmay, PlanB Press, Winter 2007

Review of The Kimnama by Ethan Fischer, The Montserrat Review, Winter 2007

Review of The Kimnama by Cheryl Snell, Rattle, Fall 2007

"Women of the Web," Didi Menendez, Sept. 17, 2007.






"The Desire to Write Poetry is a Weird and Unnatural Thing: An Interview with Kim Roberts," Kathi Wolfe, Scene 4 Magazine, September 2007.





Interview by Gaea Honeycutt
Part One - June 27, 2007
Part Two - July 08, 2007

"Dante, Pushkin, Longfellow, Neruda: D.C.'s Favorite Writers?" Mark Fisher, March 16, 2007.

"Walt Whitman: Celebrating the Poet's History--and Washington's" Mary Quattlebaum, March 25, 2005.

Ready for Rhyme Time” Mary Quattlebaum, June 18, 2004.









"But What Do You Really Do?," part of the series "Author, Author," Wendi Kaufman, Washingtonian Magazine, May 2006.



Also of Interest
Time to Change the Sheets,” book review of The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel, The Great American Pinup, June 7, 2006. Includes a section on poems by Kim Roberts.

Book Review of Poetic Voices Without Borders anthology by Julie R. Enszer, Galatea Resurrects, May 16, 2006. Includes prominent mention of poem by Kim Roberts.
Legendary Poet Whitman Lauded in Washington,” Voice of America, Stephanie Ho, May 31, 2005.
O Poet! My Poet! Camden fends off Whitman Barbs,” Jim Walsh, Camden Courier-Post, April 18, 2005.
The ‘Grass’ is Getting Greener,” Brian Moylan, Washington Blade, March 25, 2005

Washington as seen through Whitman's Eyes,” Lisa Rauschart, The Washington Times, May 13, 2004.
Memory and Influence: A History of DC Poets,” Chickenbones: A Journal for Literary and Artistic African-American Themes, October 2003.
Running the Meter,” Sarah Godfrey, Washington City Paper, April 26, 2002.
Putting Poetry Readings Online: Web Journal Beltway Gives Voice to Washington Area Writers” Anne Kenderdine, Washington Post, March 15, 2001.
"New On-Line Magazine Celebrates Poetry in the Nation’s Capitol,” Absolute Arts, January 8, 2000.