Weinstein Author Series – Kim Roberts | By Broad Potomac’s Shore

To celebrate April as Poetry Month, LVA hosted an online talk by poet, literary historian, and editor Kim Roberts on her book "By Broad Potomac’s Shore: Great Poems from the Early Days of Our Nation’s Capital." This comprehensive anthology features poems by both well-known and overlooked poets working and living in the capital from the city's founding in 1800 to 1930. Roberts expertly presents the work of 132 poets, including poems by celebrated DC writers such as Francis Scott Key, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ambrose Bierce, Henry Adams, and James Weldon Johnson, as well as the work of lesser-known poets—especially women, writers of color, and working-class writers. A significant number of the poems are by writers who were born enslaved, such as Fanny Jackson Coppin, T. Thomas Fortune, and John Sella Martin.

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Congrats Kim Roberts. Will get your book! I love your point of view. You might know the book I edited Urban Odyssey/Washington Odyssey, about immigration & migration to DC. It grew out of a DC humanities project long ago. Let's chat sometime. You were a PCV in Ukraine, too, right? Francine (Fran) Cary, RPCV Ukr 09-11, & lived in DC for almost20years, left in 1999.