Selected Anthologies

Contemporary Jewish American Poetry , Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013

Sunken Garden Poetry, Wesleyan University Press, 2012

Amazing Graces: Yet Another Collection of Fiction by Washington Area Women, Paycock Press, 2012






Entering the Real World: VCCA Poets on Mount San Angelo
,

40th Anniversary Anthology of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Wavertree Press, 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.

 

Selected Poetry Online







The Museum of Americana, Issue 2, February 2013, “Great Smoky Mountains”







Ilanot Review (Israel), Winter 2013. “The Vital Force”





Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry
December 2012, Three Poems
March 2008, "Siamese Twins"







Cider Press Review, Volume 14-2, October 2012. “A Deployed Umbrella on a Rainless Day is a Grave Public Offense”







Blue Lyra Review, Issue 1.1, Summer 2012. “The Invasive Weed Syndicate”







Redux Literary Journal, Issue #38, June 18, 2012. Three poems







Verse Daily, May 4, 2012. “The International Fruit of Welcome”







Theodate, Volume 1, No. 1, Winter 2012, "The Garden of Ryoan-ji"






Global Waters Magazine,
USAID, Vol. III, Issue I, Quarter I, 2012, "American Herring Gull"




Split This Rock Poem of the Week
"Portrait of Hippocrates, or Buqrat," December 16, 2011
"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.

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 (India), Four poems, 2010 and 2011.


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

Volume 1, Issue 1, Summer 2009, "Bilingual"

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







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"



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"






Innisfree Poetry Journal ,
Four poems, Issue 3, Fall 2006.








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

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

 

 

 

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


WAMU-FM, Metro Connection, June 29, 2012. .

"“Bookend: Scoping Out the D.C. Literary Scene with Kim Roberts” (Audio)

 



Art Works, podcasts from the National Endowment for the Arts
"“Duke Ellington: Jazz Musician, Composer, Bandleader,” July 15, 2012.
and
U Street NW,” July 8, 2010. (Audio)

 

"The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress," hosted by Grace Cavalieri, Web cast (Audio)

Poetry reading and interview with Fred Joiner, 2011.

Poetry reading with Hilary Tham, Karren Alenier, and Rose Solari, 2005.

 

Think Twice Radio, Just Buffalo's Literary Cafe at the Center for Inquiry, (MP3) recorded 7/2/08.

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


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 Non-Fiction Online



Beltway Poetry Quarterly

Vol. 13:4, Fall 2012, “Georgia Douglas Johnson"
Vol. 12:1, Winter 2011, "Langston Hughes in Washington, DC: Conflict and Class"
Vol. 11:2, Spring 2010, “The Bethel Literary and Historical Society”
Vol. 4:4, 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






Eyewear
“Poetry Focus: Marianne Moore,” August 14, 2008






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.






Chicago Tribune, “Retracing the Footsteps of a Young, Brilliant Poet,”
Book Review of Walking North with Keats, February 5, 1993.

 

Selected Reviews, Interviews, and Press Coverage

The Washington Post
March 15, 2013, “Poetry’s Tense Relationship with E-Readers” by Lonnae O’Neal Parker
December 29, 2011, "The Poetics of Water: Art Inspired by Poetry" by Roger Catlin
December 18, 2011, "Area Writers Uncover DC's Bookish Past" by Ellen McCarthy
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







Winonan, “Kim Roberts concludes fall Great River Reading Series,” by Karin Chandler, October 31, 2012






bschillace,
Interview by Brandy Schillace, July 14, 2012






Innisfree Poetry Journal ,
Review of Animal Magnetism by Maryanne Hannan, Issue 14, Spring 2012






Art Works, the blog of the National Endowment for the Arts
"Art Talk with Kim Roberts," January 31, 2012




Washington City Paper
November 7, 2011, "Roald Dahl Typed Here" by Jonathan L. Fischer
April 26, 2002, “Running the Meter” by Sarah Godfrey



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




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







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

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








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.

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 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