Kim Roberts is the author of six books of poems, most recently Corona/Crown, a cross-disciplinary collaboration with photographer Robert Revere (WordTech Editions, 2023). Roberts edited By Broad Potomac's Shore: Great Poems from the Early Days of our Nation's Capital (University of Virginia Press, 2020), selected by the East Coast Centers for the Book to represent Washington, DC in the Route 1 Reads program. She is the author of the popular guidebook, A Literary Guide to Washington, DC: Walking in the Footsteps of American Writers from Francis Scott Key to Zora Neale Hurston (University of Virginia Press, 2018). Roberts was a 2023 Pride Writer-in-Residence at the Arts Club of Washington, and was awarded a 2023 Independent Humanities Practitioner Fellowship from Humanities DC. She co-curates DC Pride Poem-a-Day each June with filmmaker Jon Gann.

Other poems by Kim Roberts in Verse Daily:
July 4, 2019:   "The Father of Our Country" "You can see four sets of George Washington's dentures..."
April 28, 2017:   "American Herring Gull" "Beneath a lazy whiptail of cloud..."
May 10, 2012:   "The International Fruit of Welcome" "A pineapple is the perfect gift..."
May 4, 2012:   "Medicine" "Fog lay atop the single field..."

Other poems on the web by Kim Roberts:
Two poems
"Pomology"
"The Scientific Method"
"After Hours in Kindergarten"
Two poems
Two poems
Four poems
Three poems
Three poems
Three poems
Three poems
"Great Smoky Mountains"

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About Corona/Crown:

"The writing and images in this many-layered book make me see my world in new ways. They bring together the most personal and the abstract, interacting and making me more and more curious as I turn each page, excited to discover what will come next. What new relationship will unfold between word and image, between self and other, between what is seen and what is perceived? This treasure of a book speaks on many levels about why and how art matters, what beauty is, and where we find it. Each time I reread it, I find something new. This is a book to be savored."
—Vaughn Sills

"'The lines, the sweet curves. The way light hits the surface of a face' observes the speaker, referencing her long-standing love affair with the art of sculpture (—all the while playing the instrument of assonant rhyme). But as this gorgeous marriage of text (prose poem) and image (photographs) is revealed, one senses that something else is in play. Yes, these pieces 'tremble, they vibrate—' But why? Because although the backdrop of this dual artistic journey is a global pandemic, one can't (I couldn't) escape that what is unfolding before our eyes and ears is a portrait of an artist (falling) in love: '[T]he way, when you smile, you always lift your chin, as if pleasure starts at the neck and travels upward to the mouth. Upward to your eyes.' But what also felt true is that these photographic images were very deliberately placed, often offering this viewer an example of the visual experience depicted in the preceding text. As if, in the face of our mortalities, art and the possibility of love is what kept us going: 'This is how we map our loss. All those beautiful curves.'"
—Francisco Aragón