An award-winning poet and literary historian residing in Washington, DC. Author of seven books of poems, two walking tour guidebooks, and editor of two poetry anthologies.
Poet. Editor. Literary Historian.
Roberts is the author of A Literary Guide to Washington, DC (University of Virginia Press, 2018), and the forthcoming Buried Stories: Walking Tours of Washington-Area Cemeteries (Rivanna Books, 2025). She is also the author of seven books of poems, including Corona/Crown, a cross-disciplinary collaboration with photographer Robert Revere (WordTech Editions, 2023), and Q&A for the End of the World, a collaboration with poet Michael Gushue (WordTech, 2025). She edited the anthology By Broad Potomac’s Shore: Great Poems from the Early Days of Our Nation’s Capital (University of Virginia Press, 2020). Learn moreā¦
The Wishbone Galaxy is one of the best first books in my lifetime. I admire these poems' tenacious tactile qualities, their skillfully concealed craft, their density and intensity. Moving, passionate, insightful.
Bill Knott April 10, 2014
Kim Roberts
Poet. Editor. Literary Historian.
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