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Gaithersburg
Book Festival

May 17, 2025

10am – 6pm

Bohrer Park


Kim Roberts

Latest Title: Corona/Crown
Corona/Crown

“Corona” is Italian for crown. This series of prose poems and photographs borrows from the formal tradition of heroic crowns of sonnets, in which each section is connected to the last by a repeated line or phrase. The coronavirus was named for its shape: the series of spikes radiating outward from a sphere-like core resemble the sun’s rays, or the crowns worn by royalty.

About Kim Roberts

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). Kim 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, D.C., 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).

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Author Schedule:

Venue(s):

Edgar Allan Poe Pavilion

Presentation Start Time:

10:15 am

Presentation End Time:

11:05 am

Signing Time:

11:15 am