CURRENT NEWS: (12/10/11):
Publications:
Rose's first novel, A Secret Woman, will be published in April, 2012. You can pre-order it here.
From the publisher's description:
Louise Terry is a quintessential, modern American woman. A successful and independent artist, sexually liberated and head strong, she’s determined to carve out a life for herself where her painting comes first and where she can avoid messy romantic entanglements. But when her estranged mother, Margaret, dies, leaving a box of documents, photos, and journals, Louise discovers in its contents a new and very different woman from the one who raised her…
Determined to pursue the fragments her mother left behind, Louise travels to England where she meets a cast of characters whom she must depend on to find her way. Blurring the boundaries between past and present, between the body and the spirit, between female and male, this page-turning mystery is a sexy romp through time and space, a profound meditation on the mother-daughter connection, and an enlightening exploration of what it means to make love, to make art, and to make a life worth living.
Poetry:
Rose has new work in or forthcoming in the journals Poetry Northwest, The Potomac Review, and Gargoyle. Her award-winning first book of poems, Difficult Weather, will go into a second edition in April 2012 to coincide with the publication of A Secret Woman.
Teaching:
In 2012, Rose will be spending two terms with the Writing Center at Kellogg College, University of Oxford, England, as a Research Member. She will return to teaching in the U.S. some time in the summer.
See Rose talk about her most recent collection of poems, Orpheus in the Park and read a poem here.
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. In 2010, she made her third consecutive appearance at the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival in Oxford, England, and co-founded Alan Squire Publishing (ASP), a small press … with big ideas.
Rose is a longtime faculty member of the Writer's Center, in Bethesda, Maryland, and also serves on the Board of Directors there. |
