Rose Solari's most recent full-length collection, Orpheus in the Park, interweaves two strands of poems — one rooted in classical mythology, one in autobiography — that, taken together, dissolve the boundaries between the extraordinary and the ordinary, the mythical and the everyday.

Hear an excerpt from the book:

  Achilles on Shore
  My Mother's Piano

Friday, July 25 at 7:00 p.m. at Politics and Prose: With Jim Patterson, Rose will co-emcee the publication reading for Stress City: A Big Book of Fiction by 51 DC Guys, edited by Richard Peabody. In addition to Mr. Patterson, contributors to the anthology who will appear that evening include R.R. Angell, Brian Gilmore, and Richard McCann. The evening is free and open to the public.

JUST IN: See the Letter from Rose page for her news from Lakefield, Ontario, where she writes about a great indie bookstore, the work of novelist Margaret Laurence, and the annual Lakefield Literary Festival, happening this weekend.

PUBLICATION NEWS:
Rose's poem "Chicken Fights" appears in the anthology, Just like A Girl: A Manifesta! just out from GirlChild Press. Visit the publisher's website for more information on the book, the contributors, and the upcoming anthology reading tour. "Chicken Fights" originally appeared in Rose's first full-length collection of poems, Difficult Weather.

Rose's poem, "That Day," on the death of jazz great Shirley Horn, appears in the current issue of Poet Lore, the oldest continuously published poetry magazine in the United States.

Visiit the Poetry page to read "Chicken Fights" and "That Day,"

TEACHING SCHEDULE:
Rose will be teaching at The Writer's Center during the fall 2008 workshop season. Visit the Center's website for more information as autumn approaches.

An interview with Rose by Grace Cavalieri for Grace's long-running "The Poet and the Poem: Live from the Libarary of Congress" radio show has been posted on the library's website. Listen to it by visiting their site.

See the Schedule page for more news on Rose's 2008 readings and appearances.

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 whose current work focuses on the intersection of myth and life. 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.