Kim Roberts

Corona/Crown

Published by WordTech Editions
Published 2023

Cross-disciplinary chapbook created in collaboration with photographer Robert Revere. The book addresses the act of looking, and the experience of going to museums. It is also about the COVID pandemic, and a time when museums and cultural spaces were closed.

The Scientific Method

Published 2017

In The Scientific Method, Kim combines poems about Thomas Alva Edison and Carl Sagan, the strange mating habits of invertebrates and fish, and rondeaux about the United States presidents. She investigates the fascinating and tangled history of science, then applies that

Fortune’s Favor: Scott in the Antarctic

Published by Poetry Mutual
Published 2015

A connected series of blank verse sonnets written in the voice of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, who led the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition of 1910-1913.  Based on Scott’s actual journals, this book recreates the Heroic Era of polar exploration, before

Animal Magnetism

Published by Pearl Editions
Published 2011

Chosen for the Pearl Poetry Prize by Debra Marquart, Animal Magnetism “investigates, in language as rich, complex, and nuanced as the body itself, the unlit interiors of physical and emotional anatomy.”

Marquart continues: “Borne out of the author’s own deep

The Kimnama

Published by Vrzhu Press
Published 2007

The Kimnama is a masala of history, culture, and personal transformation.  Scene4 Magazine calls it “…a Whitmanesque long poem…[that] makes the reader viscerally smell, hear, touch and see the streets, mosques, gods, vehicles, shopping malls and slums of New Delhi…”

The Wishbone Galaxy

Published by Washington Writers Publishing House
Published 1994

“…one of the best first books in my lifetime…Moving, passionate, insightful, these wonderful evocations of Eros should be appreciated by anyone interested—and who isn’t—in ‘the pressure of one body against another.'” —Bill Knott

“The passionate, sardonic voice in these poems

By Broad Potomac’s Shore

Published by University of Virginia Press
Published 2020

Selected by the DC Public Libraries for the 2021 Route 1 Reads program, sponsored by the East Coast Centers for the

A Literary Guide to Washington, DC: Walking in the Footsteps of American Writers from Francis Scott Key to Zora Neale Hurston

Published by University of Virginia Press
Published 2018

Washington, DC has been the home to many of our nation’s most acclaimed writers. From its founding to the beginnings of modernism, literary luminaries have lived and worked in our capital. Continue reading →

Full Moon on K Street: Poems About Washington, DC

Published by Plan B Press
Published 2010

Captures DC’s unique sense of place, from monuments to parks, from lawyers to bus stations, from go-go music to chili half-smokes. 101 poems, written between 1950 and the present, by past and current residents of the city.  The Washington Post

Quire

Published by The Last Press
Published 2022

Poetry Tract Number 3, 2022. A hand-letter-press fan fold with five love poems.

Lip Smack: A History of Spoken Word Poetry in DC

Published by Beltway Editions
Published 2010

An illustrated timeline of major people and events from 1991 to 2010. Limited edition non-fiction chapbook.

Commissioned by the Humanities Council of Washington, DC and released in conjunction with their 30th anniversary. Co-sponsored with Beltway Poetry Quarterly and The Word

Lee Highway: Beyond Pavement

Published by Arlington County Cultural Affairs
Published 2000

Collaborative limited edition artists’ book of eight printmakers and four poets from Arlington, VA.  Kim Roberts edited the poetry portion. The poems were handset in Bodoni Bold and printed letterpress by Mike Kaylor at the Press at Gunston Day School,