Selected Anthologies

Entering the Real World: VCCA Poets on Mount San Angelo, 40th Anniversary Anthology of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 2011




Cooking Up South: Entertaining with Soulful Recipes, Poems and Remembrances
Capitol BookFest, 2010


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


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.



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.

 

Visual Art Exhibitions/Exhibit Catalogues



The Poetics of Water
,
Take Me To The River Arts Collective.
Exhibition at University of Maryland University College, Arts Program Gallery, 2011-2012.
Includes two poems, "McMillan Water Treatment Plant," and "American Herring Gull" (see slides 6 and 14).

 



The Lowly, Exalted and Other Poems, ed. Lillian Baker Kennedy.
From the exhibition Spineless Wonders: Invertebrates as Inspiration,
Atrium Art Gallery, University of Southern Maine, Lewiston-Auburn College, 2009.
Includes the poem, "Mother."


 

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




Split This Rock Poem of the Week
"Portrait of Hippocrates, or Buqrat," forthcoming
"IUDs," February 16, 2011

Poemeleon, Volume V, Issue 2, Summer/Fall 2011, "Van Gogh at Arles"

Bosphorus Art Project (BAP-Q), Volume 6, Issue 16, Summer 2011, three poems.

Your Eyes Blaze Out, August 29, 2011, "Night Tumbles Into Town By Rail"

The Rambling Epicure, Food Poetry, February 2011, "Walnut"

Prime Number, Issue 5, January 2011, Three poems

As It Ought To Be, Saturday Poetry Series, January 29, 2011, "Long Division"

Skull-A-Day, January 28, 2011, "The Skull of Johann Gaspar Spurzheim"

Thanal Online, July 2010, "Sleeping with Architecture" and "Elegy"

Squid Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue 2, Fall 2009, "Chapter 31: Common Ailments"

No Tell Motel,
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"

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






SWR: Southern Women's Review

Summer 2009, "Bilingual"

Lines + Stars, 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"







The Fieldstone Review, 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"

Urbancode, 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



Beltway Poetry Quarterly
,
Vol. 12, No. 1, Winter 2011, "Langston Hughes in Washington, DC: Conflict and Class"

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





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







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

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







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

 

Selected Reviews, Interviews, and Press Coverage



BerniE-Zine,
September 2011, Review: Full Moon on K Street: Poems About Washington, DC, Bernadette Geyer.






People's District,
July 28, 2011, Interview: "Kim on Claiming Our History" by Danny Harris.






Smartish Pace

June 2011, Review of Full Moon on K Street: Poems About Washington, DC, Wynn Yarbrough.

Reprinted July 2011, Gently Read Literature.



Rattle
, June 10, 2011
, Review of Animal Magnetism, Mike Maggio

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

 


New Pages

 May 1, 2011, Book Review of Animal Magnetism, February 19, 2011







Poets/Artists
Poets/Artists, Volume 4, Issue 2, April 2011,
"Grace Notes: Grace Cavalieri Interviews Three Women Editors"



The Examiner

February 19, 2011, "Animal Magnetism is a Magnetic Experience"
January 19, 2011, "Beltway Poetry Quarterly Pairs DC Poets at AWP"




She Writes, January 15, 2011, Review of Animal Magnetism, Cheryl Snell




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







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





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

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






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





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

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

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







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






Weirding Words
Interview by Gaea Honeycutt
June 27, 2007, Part One
July 8, 2007, Part Two



The Washington Post
March 16, 2007, "Dante, Pushkin, Longfellow, Neruda: D.C.'s Favorite Writers?" by Mark Fisher
March 25, 2005, "Walt Whitman: Celebrating the Poet's History--and Washington's" by Mary Quattlebaum
June 18, 2004, “Ready for Rhyme Time” by Mary Quattlebaum








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


Also of Interest

Scene 4 Magazine, February 13, 2011,
Rick Peabody and Life in the Trenches” by Miles David Moore.
The Great American Pinup, June 7, 2006,
Time to Change the Sheets,” book review of The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel. Includes a section on poems by Kim Roberts.

Galatea Resurrects, May 16, 2006,
Book Review of Poetic Voices Without Borders anthology by Julie R. Enszer. Includes prominent mention of poem by Kim Roberts.

Voice of America, May 31, 2005,
Legendary Poet Whitman Lauded in Washington” by Stephanie Ho
Camden Courier-Post, April 18, 2005,
O Poet! My Poet! Camden fends off Whitman Barbs,” by Jim Walsh
Washington Blade, March 25, 2005,
The ‘Grass’ is Getting Greener,” by Brian Moylan

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