%xmlchars; ]> MS2222 Guide to the Kim Roberts biographical files of D.C. poets, 1995-2006 Special Collections Research Center, The George Washington University Special Collections Research Center, The Gelman Library, The George Washington University 2007

2130 H. St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20052 Phone: 202-994-7549 Email: speccoll@gwu.edu

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Washington, D.C.

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Descriptive Summary Roberts, Kim Kim Roberts biographical files of D.C. poets, 1995-2006 MS2222 3.5 Linear feet This collection contains programs, correspondence, articles and other miscellanies amassed by D.C. poet Kim Roberts pertaining to over 250 Washington D.C. poets. The George Washington University, The Gelman Library, Special Collections Research Center

2130 H. St. NW Washington, D.C. 20052 Phone: 202-994-7549 Email:

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Kim Roberts biographical files of D.C. poets, Special Collections Research Center, The George Washington University.

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Historical or Biographical Note

Kim Roberts is the editor of Beltway Poetry Quarterly and author of two books of poems, The Kimnama (Vrzhu Press, 2007), and The Wishbone Galaxy (Washington Writers Publishing House, 1994). Individual poems of hers are also included in numerous print anthologies, such as American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon University Press), Cabin Fever (The Word Works, Inc.), Hungry As We Are (Washington Writers Publishing House), Poetic Voices Without Borders (Gival Press) and The First Yes: Poems About Communicating (Dryad Press), as well as CDs such as 31 Arlington Poets (Paycock Press) and Poetry Alive at Iota (Minimus Productions). She has published widely in literary journals throughout the US, as well as in Canada, Ireland, France, and Brazil.

Collection Scope and Content

This collection contains programs, correspondence, articles and other miscellanies amassed by D.C. poet Kim Roberts pertaining to over 250 Washington D.C. poets, invaluable to any researchers wishing to fully comprehend the D.C. poetry community or to obtain a glimpse of it and it's major players.

The collection is organized alphabetically by poet.

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Indexing Terms Individuals Roberts, Kim --Cavalieri, Grace --Larew, Hiram Miller, E. Ethelbert. Topics Poetry Geographic Locations Washington (D.C.) Detailed Description of the Records 1 1 Henry Adams

1 2 Deborah Ager

1 3 Karen LaLonde Alenier

1 4 Elizabeth Alexander

1 5 Kwame Alexander

1 6 Nancy Arbuthnot

1 7 Barri Armitage

1 8 Jennifer Atkinson

1 9 Joseph Awad

1 10 Naomi Ayala

1 11 Jonette Rose Barras

1 12 Holly Bass

1 13 Richard Bausch

1 14 Anne Becker

1 15 Mel Berlin

1 16 Mario Bencastro

1 17 Rose Berger

1 18 Donald Berger

1 19 Cliff Bernier

1 20 Rei Berroa

1 21 Reginald Dwayne Betts

1 22 Ambrose Bierce

1 23 Elizabeth Bishop

1 24 Star Black

1 25 Richard Blanco

1 26 Louise Bogan

1 27 Jody Bolz

1 28 Joseph Brodsky

1 29 Gwendolyn Brooks

1 30 Derrick Weston Brown

1 31 Sterling Brown

1 32 Sarah Browning

1 33 Carol Bruce

1 34 Paula Closson Buck

1 35 Linda Joy Burke

1 36 Frances Hodgson Burnett

1 37 Forestine Bynum

1 38 Rick Cannon

1 39 Nancy Naomi Carlson

1 40 Kenneth Carroll

1 41 Grace Cavalieri

1 42 Alan Cheuse

1 43 Lisa Chun

1 44 George Churchill

1 45 John Clarke

1 46 Vilena Lyons Clifton

1 47 Michael Collier

1 48 Billy Collins

1 49 Maxine Combs

1 50 Geraldine Connolly

1 51 Chris Conlon

1 52 Cheryl L. Crockett

1 53 Jane Alberdeston Coralin

1 54 Teri Ellen Cross

1 55 Ed Cox

1 56 Waring Cuney

1 57 Ramola Dharmary

1 58 Gayle Danley

1 59 Ann Darr

1 60 Christina Daub

1 61 Michael C. Davis

1 62 Eva Day

1 63 Clarissa M. Scott Delany

1 64 Joanna "Rocky" Delaplaine

1 65 Peter Desmond

1 66 Joel Dias-Porter(aka DJ Renegade)

1 67 Moshe Dor

1 68 Frederick Douglass

1 69 Rita Dove

1 70 Paul Lawrence Dunbar

1 71 Cornelius Eady

1 72 Moira Egan

1 73 Michele Elliott

1 74 Thomas Sayers Ellis

1 75 John Elsberg

1 76 Laura Fargas

1 77 F. Scott Fitzgerald

1 78 Roland Flint

1 79 Yael Flusberg

1 80 Calvin Forbes

1 81 Carolyn Forche

1 82 Donna Foulke

1 83 Jay Frazier

1 84 Sunil Freeman

1 85 Robert Frost

1 86 Heather Fuller

1 87 Martin Galvin

1 88 Patricia Garfinkle

1 89 David Gewanter

1 90 Simki Ghebremichael

1 91 Brian Gilmore

1 92 Dana Gioia

1 93 Linda Girardi

1 94 Robert Girardi

1 95 Robert L. Giron

1 96 Louise Gluck

1 97 Barbara Goldberg

1 98 Manita Golden

1 99 Patricia Gray

1 10 Angelina Weld Grimke

1 11 Michael Gushue

1 12 Dan Gustein

1 13 John Haines

1 14 Donald Hall

1 15 Monica Hand

1 16 O.B. Hardison Jr.

1 17 Susan Shown Harjo

1 18 Judith Harris

1 19 Yona Harvey

1 110 Anthony Hecht

1 111 Hecht Galleys

1 112 Tony Hoagland

1 113 Andrew Holleran

1 114 James C. Hopkins

1 115 Ailish Hopper

1 116 Langston Hughes

1 117 Langston Hughes

1 118 Zora Neale Hurston

1 119 Archibald MacLeish

2 1 Tod Ibrahim

2 2 Esther Iverem

2 3 Reuben Jackson

2 4 Josephine Jacobsen

2 5 Bernard Jankowski

2 6 Philip K. Jason

2 7 Valerie Jean

2 8 Rod Jellema

2 9 Fred Joiner

2 10 Georgia Douglas Johnson

2 11 Edward P. Jones

2 12 Beth Joselow

2 13 Dolores Kendrick

2 14 Francis Scott Key

2 15 Alan King

2 16 Matthew Klam

2 17 Peter Klappert

2 18 Rosemary Klein

2 19 Ann Knox

2 20 Ted Kooser

2 21 Joyce Kornblatt

2 22 Stanley Kunitz

2 23 Joe Lapp

2 24 Hiram Larew

2 25 Mary Ann Larkin

2 26 Helen Elaine Lee

2 27 Merrill Leffler

2 28 Vladimir Levchev

2 29 Lyn Lifshin

2 30 Toni Asante Lightfoot

2 31 Perry Lindstrom

2 32 Alain Locke

2 33 Robert Lowell

2 34 Beverly Lowry

2 35 Michael Lythgoe

2 36 Saundra Rose Maley

2 37 William Matthews

2 38 C.M. Mayo

2 39 David McAleavey

2 40 Greg McBride

2 41 Richard McCann

2 42 Judith McCombs

2 43 W.S. Merwin

2 44 Ethelbert Miller

2 45 Joaquin Miller

2 46 May Miller

2 47 Sami Miranda

2 48 Miles Davis Moore

2 49 Sharon Morgenthaler

2 50 Kathi Morrison-Taylor

2 51 Faye Moskowitz

2 52 Elisabeth Murawski

2 53 Gaston Neal

2 54 Yvette Neisser

2 55 Hoawrd Norman

2 56 Elizabeth Oness

2 57 Joe Osterhaus

2 58 Sibbie O'Sullivan

2 59 Kathleen O'Toole

2 60 Jose Emilio Pacheco

2 61 Betty Parry

2 62 Eric Pankey

2 63 Linda Pastan

2 64 John Pauker

2 65 John Howard Payne

2 66 Richard Peabody

2 67 Lisa Pegram (aka Lady Pcoq)

2 68 Patric Pepper

2 69 Christabelle Peters

2 70 Leslie Pietrzyk

2 71 Jon Pineda

2 72 Robert Pinksy

2 73 Stanley Plumly

2 74 Elizabeth Poliner

2 75 Katherine Anne Porter

2 76 Jacklyn Potter

2 77 Ezra Pound

2 78 Minnie Bruce Pratt

2 79 Dudley Randall

2 80 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

2 81 Bernice Johnson Reagon

2 82 Elizabeth Rees

2 83 Joan Retallack

2 84 Mary Roberts Rinehart

2 85 Elisavietta Ritchie

2 86 Carly Sachs

2 87 Martha Sanchez-Lowery

2 88 Robert Sargent

2 89 M.A. Schaffner

2 90 Gregg Shapiro

2 91 Karl Shapiro

2 92 Jane Shore

2 93 Susan Richards Shreve

2 94 Malcolm Shute

2 95 Myra Sklarew

2 96 Dean Smith

2 97 Katherine Smith

2 98 Rod Smith

2 99 E.D.E.N. Southworth

2 10 Alan Spears

2 11 A.B. Spellman

2 12 William Stafford

2 13 Gary Stein

2 14 Mark Tarallo

2 15 Greg Tate

2 16 Henry Taylor

2 17 Hilary Tham

2 18 Susan Tichy

2 19 Max Ticktin

2 110 Jean Toomer

2 111 Louis Untermeyer

2 112 Elaine Upton

2 113 Reetika Vazirani

2 114 Mona Van Duyn

2 115 Dan Vera

2 116 Rebecca Villarreal

2 117 Mark Wallace

2 118 Robert Penn Warren

2 119 Belle Waring

2 120 Joshua Weiner

2 121 Reed Whittemore

2 122 Richard Wilbur

2 123 William Carlos Williams

2 124 Rhonda Williford

2 125 Terence Winch

2 126 Rosemary Winslow

2 127 Kathi Wolfe

2 128 Ernie Wormwood

2 129 Andrea Wyatt

2 130 Elinor Wylie

2 131 A Sea Symphony

3 1 WWQR

3 2 Walt Whitman in Washington

3 3 Walt Whitman in Washington

3 4 Walt Whitman

3 5 Brother Yao,

3 6 Ahmos Zu-Bolton,

3 7 Mary Kay Zuravleff,