@kimroberts-dc.bsky.social
Two new books in 2025! "Q&A for the End of the World," a poetry collaboration with Michael Gushue, and "Buried Stories: Walking Tours of Washington, DC-Area Cemeteries."
Monday, 9/15, 12 - 1 EST:
A discussion between two poets about creative collaboration. @mgushuedc.bsky.social and @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social co-wrote the poetry collection Q&A for the End of the World (WordTech Editions).
Register:
www.brownbaglit.com/events
Five of my favorite queer poets read on Sept. 9 at 6:30 pm at the Arts Club of Washington. The original reading had to be rescheduled due to (ahem) a certain military parade. AGG, Natalie E. Illum, Dwayne Lawson-Brown, Saundra Rose Maley, and Chris Nealon. Free. acw.wildapricot.org/event-6206383
08.08.2025 18:49 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A variation on the Little Free Library theme: this one's a chalk-and-eraser library. #littlefreelibrary
13.07.2025 17:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Leading a pantoum workshop for the Washington Writers Publishing House Summer Salon, last night at @rhizomedc.bsky.social. Great turnout!
01.07.2025 13:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"...from here to where hills drift away/From here to where branches meet/I miss you my friend/As much as early..." from "The Towels" by @hiramlarew.bsky.social, the featured author today at DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
30.06.2025 12:30 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"I never/knew hunger/could taste/like that" from "His dick looked like an Olive Garden breadstick" by AGG, aka Adrian Gaston Garcia, the featured poet today at DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
29.06.2025 12:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Natalie E. Illum is featured today at DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Cuffing Season": "It is not the season/for dancing. It is the season/for stretching one memory so thin/it dissolves into its opposite." #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
28.06.2025 13:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"I am a lobby hosting all the wishes to be..." from "Liminal" by Sandra Ovalle Gómez, the featured poet today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
27.06.2025 13:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Nice to see! 730DC featured tonight's panel discussion at MLK Library, "Vital Signs: DC and the Poetry of AIDS."Come join us! I cohost with @regie.bsky.social, with speakers @danvera.com, @bernardwelt.bsky.social , and Christopher Prince. Free! Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/culture-se...
26.06.2025 14:13 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Jona Colson is featured today at DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Ephemeral": "I am walking hastily to my own extinction/like the luna moth breaking open in rain--" #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
26.06.2025 14:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Holly Mason Badra's featured today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Seeing": "'Koi,' in Japanese,/is homophonic for the word 'love.'" #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
25.06.2025 12:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Sometimes I feel like a guest/In my own presence,/Or a shadow of who I am supposed to be." from "Nobody Knows the Will of God" by Amuche Nwafor, today's featured writer in DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
24.06.2025 12:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hailey Leithauser is featured today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Claustrophilia": "Why don't we try a new game called Fleas-/in-a-Thimble, why don't we shake up/a cocktail called a Neutron Star?" #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
23.06.2025 13:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Vivian Ealy is featured today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Feminine": "...I am/lollipop lip job, born to bear,/bear it back home, all/the way down..." #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
22.06.2025 11:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Luke Sutherland is featured today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Against Identification": "Is it brave to desire,/to act on that desire?" #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
21.06.2025 14:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"...I want more but won't bite//the fingers that squeezeme/time is not blood from a turnip/so pay as you go or as you wish..." from "The Root of All" by Natasha Saje, today's feature on DC Pride Poem-a-Day. Listen to the whole poem, and others released daily! #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
20.06.2025 14:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Was her likeness, mine as to smoke, water/The promise of tears that nobody hears..." from "Dear Mom" by Richard Hamilton, featured today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry #pridemonth www.pridepoems.com
19.06.2025 11:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Don't miss this one! "Vital Signs: DC and the Poetry of AIDS," Thursday, June 26 at 7pm, MLK Library, DC. Free. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/culture-se...
18.06.2025 23:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
DC Pride Poem-a-Day presents "the river flows" by Adriana M. Martinez Figueroa today! "...after the expulsion and exile/after the violence/after the flood/didn't the river run from the mountain?" #pridepoems #dcpoetry #pridemonth www.pridepoems.com
17.06.2025 14:37 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Carlota Roby is the DC Pride Poem-a-Day poet today! In "Saint-Jovite," she writes: "...Where did we expect to find death?/It was right in front of us,/raw and cruel,/a wounded beast..." #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
16.06.2025 12:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"These are not sheets but his event horizon..." From "Sagittarius A in the corner of my room" by Oread Frias, featured in DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
15.06.2025 14:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"My feet beg to be squeezed/As if they were size 10 Meyer lemons..." @regie.bsky.social is DC Pride Poem-a-Day's feature with "Ode to My Sandals." #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
14.06.2025 13:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Malik Thompson is the DC Pride Poem-a-Day feature today, reading his poem, "Nocturne: Roses." "A slow bend/in the supple branches,/the outspread hand I extend/to this autumn night's black teeth." #pridepoems www.pridepoems.com
13.06.2025 15:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Wind and rain have whipped/wild points into her hair/and her brown eyes, sans serif,/stare down the work ahead." from "The Levee" by K. Rose Dallimore in today's DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #CapitalPride #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
12.06.2025 13:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ishanee Chanda reads "hanahaki" in DC Pride Poem-a-Day: "i pull flower petals from my mouth/two at a time/and i stuff them into the cracks/of her bedroom as i leave..." #pridepoems
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"...I slip silently from the sheets,/leave the serenely snoring dog/beside my slumbering husband..." Listen to @petemontdc.com read his poem "Sweetness" for DC Pride Poem-a-Day! #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
10.06.2025 13:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
DC Pride Poem-a-Day features "Salt Water" by Amanda Esteves Correia: "Daughter of Iemanjá I am/Iemanjá/who crossed the Atlantic Ocean/from Africa/to Brazil..." #pridepoems #capitalpride #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
09.06.2025 13:22 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Tu es mon héros, you text him periodically--/declaring that not only is he your hero, but also,/because of the 's,' the source of your eros--" from "En Français" by Greta Ehrig, today's poem on DC Pride Poems. #pridepoems #capitalpride #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com
08.06.2025 13:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
DC Pride Poem-a-Day features Jasmine Haskins, with "For You I'd Create a New Language": "The tips of my fingers a tinge/Violet, next to the violas,/And I hear violins out of tune/Violently harmonious..." #pridepoems #capitalpride www.pridepoems.com
07.06.2025 11:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tribes Magazine has published a special pride issue. I am honored to be included, along with 13 other writers I greatly admire. www.tribes.org/tribes-magaz...
06.06.2025 14:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
