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Kim Roberts, editor Perfect-bound. 160 pp. $20.00 
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Featuring over one hundred contemporary poems, the book captures DC's unique sense of place, from monuments to parks, from lawyers to bus stations, from go-go music to chili half-smokes. All poems were written between 1950 and the present, by past and current residents of the city. Edited by Kim Roberts, the publisher of the acclaimed online journal Beltway Poetry Quarterly, this anthology captures the city's many moods: celebratory, angry, and fiercely political. Contributors include: two-time US Poet Laureate Reed Whittemore; DC's first Poet Laureate, Sterling A. Brown; senator and five-time presidential candidate Eugene J. McCarthy; Cervantes prize winner for lifetime achievement in Spanish-language literature, Jose Emilio Pacheco; renowned gay rights activist Essex Hemphill; and President Obama's official inauguration poet, Elizabeth Alexander. A number of readings will take place throughout 2010, in the greater Washington DC area (and one in Chicago). See our events page for details. Full Moon on K Street is available at Busboys & Poets and Poetics & Prose in Washington, DC and elsewhere! Reviews: The Washington Post called it "the first anthology of modern poetry to be wholly for, about and by current and former Washington residents[that] teems with poets who've distilled the region's lifeblood into verse over the past 50 years." The Current Newspaper's family of neighborhood papers (The Northwest Current, Georgetown Current, and Dupont Current) noted, "If you love D.C., even if you haven't read a poem since high school, you'll find that the book is full of intriguing perspectives on familiar places and events...And for newcomers--or those who want to send the book to folks back home--the introduction to each poem explains the local references." The Hill Rag acclaimed, "What better place for a poetry journal than the nation's capital?" The Dressing, Karren L. Alenier's blog on Scene4 Magazine, reviewed the Folger Shakespeare Library anniversary reading for Poet Lore and Beltway Poetry. Alenier praised: "Full Moon on K Street is a graphically handsome volume that will serve as a literary historian's reference and a unique tour of Washington, DC." The Devil's Accountant writes about Full Moon on K Street; "beginning with what I believe is a very important new release followed by a celebration of a landmark anthology......What makes Roberts anthology so successful is its care for the individual poets and a drive to provide information on how the poem or poet relates to the city. Every single entry is introduced with a brief bio of the poet followed by an explanation of why it is about D.C. It is a very historical collection." Harriet, the blog of the Poetry Foundation, published a review by Annie Finch on April 26, "Place, Time, Consciousness: Three New Political Anthologies." Of Full Moon on K Street, Finch writes: "The book is full of surprise and humor and energy, from Michael Lally opening a poem, 'DC, do you wanna dance?' to Esther Iversen's 'tribute' to Bush's second inauguration...Fresh and memorable poems from a true range of voices. An additional unique charm is that each author bio ends with a sentence giving concrete information about DC evoked by that poet's poem...All around, this is a fun and unique anthology and a great introduction to the very cool world of DC poetry." In the Baltimore City Paper on May 12, 2010, Geoffrey Himes writes: "It's a challenge to turn something as amorphous as a city into poetry--especially a city dominated by bureaucrats, curators, and lobbyists. But the poets in Full Moon appear determined to prove, as Lally puts it in his poem "DC," that Washington "doesn't have to be a museum in the pits! Spies! Ritual catalogue of dates!" How do you find the poetry, though, amid all that marble and concrete? "Where did the earth go?" Cavalieri writes in "Mapping DC (1966-2007)," "Into Sterling Brown's voice . . . into the whine of the guitar of Bill Harris at the 'Pigfoot' club." New Pages Book Review. Reviewer Kimberley Becker begins her review: "If anthology means a "gathering of flowers," then Full Moon on K Street: Poems about Washington, DC is a resplendent bouquet accompanying editor Kim Roberts's "love letter" to the City." Mike Maggio's review of Full Moon on K Street appears, in a somewhat shorter version, at Gently Read Literature. From the review comes this gem, "Veteran editor Kim Roberts (Beltway Poetry Quarterly) has once again flexed her editorial muscles with this new collection of poems by current and former Washington DC residents. A veritable who's who of contemporary DC poets, Full Moon on K Street gathers voices old and new, known and not-so-known, in a potpourri of poetic vignettes that illuminate every nook and cranny of our often-demonized city." Other information: Q and A with Kim Roberts Press Release for Full Moon On K Street |