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."https://bsky.app/profile/kimroberts-dc.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/kimroberts-dc.bsky.social/post/3ml4bj7vdgc2sSo exciting! The new #uvapress Fall catalogue is out. My new book is ready to pre-order! The District's Departed: A Guidebook to DC Cemeteries. www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10208/05 May 2026 13:17 +0000at://did:plc:k7cevohwxyagj7e3rtal3p5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4bj7vdgc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/kimroberts-dc.bsky.social/post/3mk464brus22e2 new poems in Aphrodisia: A Queer Literary & Arts Journal! https://aphrodisiajournal.my.canva.site/kim-roberts-meikle22 Apr 2026 18:51 +0000at://did:plc:k7cevohwxyagj7e3rtal3p5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk464brus22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/kimroberts-dc.bsky.social/post/3mg5waistb22uSign up for a free poetry workshop, "Queer Homage," led by Marlena Chertock on Tuesday, March 24 at 6:30 at the Arts Club of Washington. Should be terrific. https://artsclubofwashington.org/events/details/?event_id=647719103 Mar 2026 13:55 +0000at://did:plc:k7cevohwxyagj7e3rtal3p5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg5waistb22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/kimroberts-dc.bsky.social/post/3meya6277yc2aI got married! Whee!16 Feb 2026 14:11 +0000at://did:plc:k7cevohwxyagj7e3rtal3p5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3meya6277yc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/kimroberts-dc.bsky.social/post/3mdxnlhfkhc2vCelebrating the birthday of Langston Hughes with @regie.bsky.social and Story Tapestries!03 Feb 2026 15:13 +0000at://did:plc:k7cevohwxyagj7e3rtal3p5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdxnlhfkhc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/kimroberts-dc.bsky.social/post/3lvvw6qvook27Five 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 https://acw.wildapricot.org/event-620638308 Aug 2025 18:49 +0000at://did:plc:k7cevohwxyagj7e3rtal3p5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvvw6qvook27https://bsky.app/profile/kimroberts-dc.bsky.social/post/3ltugdyvj5k2tA variation on the Little Free Library theme: this one's a chalk-and-eraser library. #littlefreelibrary13 Jul 2025 17:43 +0000at://did:plc:k7cevohwxyagj7e3rtal3p5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltugdyvj5k2thttps://bsky.app/profile/kimroberts-dc.bsky.social/post/3lsvrgepvzc23Leading a pantoum workshop for the Washington Writers Publishing House Summer Salon, last night at @rhizomedc.bsky.social. Great turnout!01 Jul 2025 13:08 +0000at://did:plc:k7cevohwxyagj7e3rtal3p5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsvrgepvzc23https://bsky.app/profile/kimroberts-dc.bsky.social/post/3lst6sztnbc23"...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 https://www.pridepoems.com/30 Jun 2025 12:30 +0000at://did:plc:k7cevohwxyagj7e3rtal3p5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lst6sztnbc23https://bsky.app/profile/kimroberts-dc.bsky.social/post/3lsqp2vlt222z"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 https://www.pridepoems.com/29 Jun 2025 12:43 +0000at://did:plc:k7cevohwxyagj7e3rtal3p5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsqp2vlt222zhttps://bsky.app/profile/kimroberts-dc.bsky.social/post/3lsobb5obac2zNatalie 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 https://www.pridepoems.com/28 Jun 2025 13:31 +0000at://did:plc:k7cevohwxyagj7e3rtal3p5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsobb5obac2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/kimroberts-dc.bsky.social/post/3lslru5whnk2z"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 https://www.pridepoems.com/27 Jun 2025 13:49 +0000at://did:plc:k7cevohwxyagj7e3rtal3p5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lslru5whnk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/kimroberts-dc.bsky.social/post/3lsjcpc5sxc2zNice 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: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/culture-series-vital-signs-dc-and-the-poetry-of-aids-tickets-134222981851926 Jun 2025 14:13 +0000at://did:plc:k7cevohwxyagj7e3rtal3p5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsjcpc5sxc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/kimroberts-dc.bsky.social/post/3lsjcjzycx22zJona 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 https://www.pridepoems.com/26 Jun 2025 14:10 +0000at://did:plc:k7cevohwxyagj7e3rtal3p5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsjcjzycx22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/kimroberts-dc.bsky.social/post/3lsgncvv2ss2wHolly 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 https://www.pridepoems.com/25 Jun 2025 12:45 +0000at://did:plc:k7cevohwxyagj7e3rtal3p5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsgncvv2ss2whttps://bsky.app/profile/kimroberts-dc.bsky.social/post/3lse43kiogk26"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 https://www.pridepoems.com/24 Jun 2025 12:31 +0000at://did:plc:k7cevohwxyagj7e3rtal3p5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lse43kiogk26https://bsky.app/profile/kimroberts-dc.bsky.social/post/3lsbpwbien22mHailey 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 https://www.pridepoems.com/23 Jun 2025 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:k7cevohwxyagj7e3rtal3p5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsbpwbien22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/kimroberts-dc.bsky.social/post/3ls6xuqcfx226Vivian 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 https://www.pridepoems.com/22 Jun 2025 11:33 +0000at://did:plc:k7cevohwxyagj7e3rtal3p5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3ls6xuqcfx226https://bsky.app/profile/kimroberts-dc.bsky.social/post/3ls4s5r6m3k26Luke 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 https://www.pridepoems.com/21 Jun 2025 14:45 +0000at://did:plc:k7cevohwxyagj7e3rtal3p5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3ls4s5r6m3k26https://bsky.app/profile/kimroberts-dc.bsky.social/post/3ls27kxvaz226"...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 https://www.pridepoems.com/20 Jun 2025 14:07 +0000at://did:plc:k7cevohwxyagj7e3rtal3p5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3ls27kxvaz226https://bsky.app/profile/kimroberts-dc.bsky.social/post/3lrxgz6wn7c23"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 https://www.pridepoems.com/19 Jun 2025 11:42 +0000at://did:plc:k7cevohwxyagj7e3rtal3p5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrxgz6wn7c23https://bsky.app/profile/kimroberts-dc.bsky.social/post/3lrw6ziunwc23Don't miss this one! "Vital Signs: DC and the Poetry of AIDS," Thursday, June 26 at 7pm, MLK Library, DC. Free. Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/culture-series-vital-signs-dc-and-the-poetry-of-aids-tickets-134222981851918 Jun 2025 23:47 +0000at://did:plc:k7cevohwxyagj7e3rtal3p5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrw6ziunwc23https://bsky.app/profile/kimroberts-dc.bsky.social/post/3lrspu5r5lc2bDC 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 https://www.pridepoems.com/17 Jun 2025 14:37 +0000at://did:plc:k7cevohwxyagj7e3rtal3p5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrspu5r5lc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/kimroberts-dc.bsky.social/post/3lrpzv5iats2xCarlota 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 https://www.pridepoems.com/16 Jun 2025 12:59 +0000at://did:plc:k7cevohwxyagj7e3rtal3p5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrpzv5iats2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/kimroberts-dc.bsky.social/post/3lrnn3ld5kk2p"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 https://www.pridepoems.com/15 Jun 2025 14:04 +0000at://did:plc:k7cevohwxyagj7e3rtal3p5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrnn3ld5kk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/kimroberts-dc.bsky.social/post/3lrl2aadvkc2i"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 https://www.pridepoems.com/14 Jun 2025 13:22 +0000at://did:plc:k7cevohwxyagj7e3rtal3p5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrl2aadvkc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/kimroberts-dc.bsky.social/post/3lripxpmzr22gMalik 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 https://www.pridepoems.com/13 Jun 2025 15:13 +0000at://did:plc:k7cevohwxyagj7e3rtal3p5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lripxpmzr22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/kimroberts-dc.bsky.social/post/3lrg2tblsjs2g"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 https://www.pridepoems.com/12 Jun 2025 13:49 +0000at://did:plc:k7cevohwxyagj7e3rtal3p5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrg2tblsjs2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/kimroberts-dc.bsky.social/post/3lrdhwkq54k2fIshanee 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 www.pridepoems.com https://www.pridepoems.com/11 Jun 2025 13:05 +0000at://did:plc:k7cevohwxyagj7e3rtal3p5c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrdhwkq54k2f