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Kim Roberts
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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."
Reposted by Kim Roberts
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:
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September 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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
Arts Club of Washington - Pride Poetry Reading
acw.wildapricot.org
August 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
A variation on the Little Free Library theme: this one's a chalk-and-eraser library. #littlefreelibrary
July 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Leading a pantoum workshop for the Washington Writers Publishing House Summer Salon, last night at @rhizomedc.bsky.social. Great turnout!
July 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
"...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
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
"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
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"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
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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...
June 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
"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
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"...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
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"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
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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...
June 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
"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
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"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
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"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
Pride Poems 2025
DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.
www.pridepoems.com
June 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Ishanee 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
www.pridepoems.com
June 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM