Rose Solari is a poet, writer and teacher. She is currently at work on a third full-length collection of poems; these are based in both contemporary and historical sources, and navigate various landscapes, including the American South West, central Ontario, Paris, London, and Oxford. Her current critical work is focused on a comparison of influences and perspectives of US and UK poets.

READINGS AND APPEARANCES:
Friday, June 19, at 9:00 p.m. at Artomatic: Rose will read from her new work, along with poets Charles Jensen and Caryn Sykes, and performance poets isee and Brewster von Thyme Thackeray. Artomatic is at 55 M St., SE, Washington, DC 20003, directly above the West Entrance of the Green Line Navy Yard Metro Stop. Admission is free; an open mic will follow the scheduled reading.

Saturday, June 20, at 1:00 p.m. at The American Poetry Museum, Anacostia Gallery: Opening reception for The Washington Caravan, an exhibit of photography and poetry documenting over twenty diverse living poets whose work has been influenced by the capitol city. Photographer Mignonette "Mig" Dooley and poet Abdul Ali are the curators of The Washington Caravan, an homage to the groundbreaking anthology The Negro Caravan edited by Howard University professors Sterling A. Brown and Arthur P. Davis. Rose is one of the poets featured in the exhibit.

The American Poetry Museum's Anacostia Gallery is located at 1922 Martin Luther King Jr Ave.,  SE, Washington, DC 20020. Admission is free.

PUBLICATIONS:
Rose's poem, “To the Wine-Taster,” will appear in The Poet's Cookbook, forthcoming from Bordighera Press/Purdue University, September 2009.

Three of Rose's poems — “Persephone at Union Station, “Island, with Goats, and “Why Rochelle Won’t Date Policemen” — are included in OCHO # 23, published by MiPoesias, Spring 2009.

Rose's essay/review, “Degrees of Humility, Levels of Heat: Three British Poets,” in which she writes about recent books by Frances Leviston, Jane Griffiths, and Jamie McKendrick, appears in the current issue of Poet Lore, Spring/Summer 2009.

Hear Rose read a poem:

Achilles on Shore
My Mother's Piano

At right, Rose being interviewed on BBC Radio, along with David Pike, British poet and editor of Pulsar poetry magazine.

Rose Solari is a poet, writer, and teacher. She is the author of two full-length collections of poems, Orpheus in the Park and Difficult Weather, as well as two chapbooks of poems, Selections from Myths & Elegies and The Stolen World. Rose authored and performed in the multi-media play Looking for Guenevere, an Arthurian retelling, and is currently at work on a historical novel.

Rose is a longtime faculty member of the Writer's Center, in Bethesda, Maryland, and recently joined the Board of Directors there.