Upcoming
Readings! We're
happy to announce the following readings in
support of The Kimnama
by Kim Roberts
andMore Than Anythingby 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.
Thanks
to previous venues and friends for hosting
readings for VRZHU Books and Authors: Busboys
& Poets (DC), Pentagon City Borders Books (Arlington, VA),
Brookland Area Writers & Artists (DC), Crimson Frog Coffeehouse
(Camp Hill, PA), Candida's World of Books (DC),
Minas Gallery
pictures (Baltimore, MD),
Poetry Brew Series/YorkArts (York, PA),
The Writers' Center (Bethesda, MD)
Hard Bargain Farm Amphitheater (Accokeek, MD)
Zü Coffee (Annapolis, MD),
and Baltimore Book Festival (Baltimore, MD)
Kensington Poetry Reading (Kensington, MD)
Intersections Reading/Honfleur Gallery (DC)
Dreamers Poetry Series (Frederick, MD)
Grace Church (DC), John Milton Poetry Festival (DE),
Iota Reading Series (Arlington, VA)
Center for Inquiry (Buffalo, NY)
Capitol Book Fest (Largo, MD)