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

CURRENT NEWS(updated 8/25/08):

TEACHING:
Rose is taking leave from teaching this autumn to concentrate on writing and research.  In the Writer's Center Winter 2009 session, she will be teaching her popular, two-week Poem a Day workshop, as well as a readings course featuring four collections of contemporary poetry.

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.

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

TEACHING SCHEDULE:
Rose will be teaching at The Writer's Center during the winter 2009 workshop season.

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.