Upcoming Readings!
We're happy to announce the following readings in
support of The Kimnama by Kim Roberts
and More Than Anything by Hiram Larew
Unless otherwise noted, both authors will be
reading on these dates.

Sunday, April 5, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Kim reads with Rosemary Winslow, Julie Enszer, Rosemary Starace, and Lesley Wheeler to celebrate the anthology Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-Po Listserv (Red Hen Press, 2008)
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Ave. NW, DC. (202) 783-5000
Free Admission.

Tuesday, April 21 at 7:00 pm
Moving Words Tenth Anniversary Reading.
Kim hosts this poetry reading, commemorating a program she started ten years ago, to place poems on public buses throughout Northern Virginia.
Reading by Jenna Lawrence, Barbara Ann Porte, Katy Richey, Mark Tarallo, Joyce Winslow, and Kathi Wolfe.
Sponsored by the Arlington County Department of Public Works, the Arlington County Cultural Affairs Division, and WMATA.
Dome Theater (in the former Newseum space)
1101 Wilson Boulevard, Rosslyn neighborhood,
Arlington, VA. (703) 228-1854.
Free Admission.

Thursday, April 23 at 7:00 pm
Reading from Poetic Voices Without Borders 2, edited by Robert L. Giron (Gival Press, 2009)
Kim reads with other contributors: Luis Alberto Ambroggio, Naomi Ayala, Mel Belin, Jody Bolz, Ye Chun, Teri Ellen Cross, Patricia Garfinkel, Peter Klappert, Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, C. M. Mayo, Judith McCombs, E. Ethelbert Miller, Miles David Moore, Richard Peabody, Blake Robinson, M.A. Schaffner, Gregg Shapiro, and J. D. Smith.
Arlington Arts Center
3550 Wilson Boulevard, Virginia Square neighborhood
Arlington, VA (703) 248-6800
Free Admission.

Monday, April 27, 2009 at 7:00 pm
National Poetry Month reading
Kim reads with Holly Bass and Dan Vera.
DC Public Library, West End Branch
1101 24th St. NW, DC. (202) 724-8707.
Free Admission.

Thursday, April 30 at 6:00 pm
Kim gives a talk on "Washington DC: Politics in Poetry" at the University of Rhode Island Library.
Sponsored by the Special Collections Department.
Free Admission..

Saturday, May 2, 2009, 2:00 pm
"Time Shadows: City Life" reading in English, German, and Mandarin. Kim reads with Grace Cavalieri, Davi Walders, and Traci O'Dea, along with translators Lane Jennings, Heribert Uschtrin, and Karl Zhang. Part of an international project to place poems about urban life by eighteen authors from the US, Germany, China, Taiwan, and Austria on posters on display in Washington, DC.
Goethe-Institut of Washington
812 Seventh Street, NW
Chinatown neighborhood, DC.
(202) 289-1200, ext. 167.
Free Admission.

Monday, June 29, 6:30 pm
"Time Shadows: City Life" reading in English, German, and Mandarin. Kim reads with Grace Cavalieri, Davi Walders, and Traci O'Dea, along with translators Lane Jennings, Heribert Uschtrin, and Karl Zhang. Part of an international project to place poems about urban life by eighteen authors from the US, Germany, China, Taiwan, and Austria on posters on display in Washington, DC.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library
Auditorium, 901 G Street NW
Gallery Place neighborhood, DC.
(202) 289-1200, ext. 167.
Free Admission.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 6:30 pm
Kim reads at the Sunken Garden Poetry and Music Festival along with winners of the Connecticut high school competition winners in the "Night of Fresh Voices." The festival, which takes place every other Wednesday night from June through August, features a terrific range of poets, including Robert Hass, Baron Wormser, Marilyn Nelson, and C.K. Williams. Rain or shine. Free admission to all events ($10 parking fee; limited free off-site parking nearby).
Hill-Stead Museum
35 Mountain Road, Farmington, CT
(860) 677-4787 ext. 120.
Free Admission.



For more reading events by Kim Roberts visit her website.