The site of a thriving literary tradition, Washington, DC, has been the home to many of our nation’s most acclaimed writers, including Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Henry Adams, Langston Hughes, Sinclair Lewis, and Zora Neale Hurston. DC poet and author Kim Roberts will discuss her new book, A Literary Guide to Washington, DC, which offers a guide to the city’s rich literary history. The book’s stimulating tours cover downtown, the LeDroit Park and Shaw neighborhoods, Lafayette Square, and the historic U Street district, bringing the history of the city to life in surprising ways. Written for tourists, literary enthusiasts, amateur historians, and armchair travelers, A Literary Guide to Washington, DC offers a cultural tour of our nation's capital through a literary lens.
Kim Roberts is the author of five books of poems, most recently The Scientific Method (WordTech Editions, 2017). Roberts has been the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, HumanitiesDC, and the DC Commission on the Arts. Her poems have appeared in journals, and in over 40 anthologies. Her website: http://www.kimroberts.org.
This event is co-sponsored by Beltway Poetry Quarterly, an award-winning online literary journal and resource bank that showcases the literary community in Washington DC and the surrounding Mid-Atlantic region.
