Rose Solari is a poet, writer and teacher. She is currently at work on a third full-length collection of poems; these are based in both contemporary and historical sources, and navigate various landscapes, including the American South West, central Ontario, Paris, London, and Oxford. Her current critical work is focused on a comparison of influences and perspectives of US and UK poets.
CURRENT NEWS: (updated 3/2/10):
Poet Dora Malech describes Rose's teaching in an interview on The Writer's Center blog. Click here for the full interview.
Rose is at work on a new, independent publishing venture that features a unique collaboration between indie presses in the U.S. and the U.K. Stay tuned for news on Spring-Summer 2010 launch parties in Oakland, California; Oxford, England; and Lakefield, Ontario.
READINGS AND APPEARANCES:
March 22 thru 27, Oxford, England: Rose returns to the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival for her third year, reading at Blackwell Books and in the festival's main marquee. Included this year: a preview reading from Initiate: An Oxford Anthology of New Writing, on Thursday, March 25, at 7:15 p.m., in the marquee, and lunch time sessions at Blackwell Books on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, March 23, 24, and 26 at 1:00 p.m.
April 8 thru 11, The AWP Conference, Denver, Colorado: Rose has two events at the annual conference this year. On Friday, April 9, she will read her poetry as part of Declarations of Independence: Voices from the Writer's Center. On Saturday, April 10, she will chair and present a paper on the panel, Through the Years: Teaching Writing to Age Groups. Visit the conference website for further information and to register.
June 8, Oxford, England: Rose will lead a seminar in Oxford University's Kellogg College Creative Writing Seminar Series. Entitled "Divided by a Common Language: Divergent Paths in British and American Poetry," the seminar also includes poets Jamie McKendrick and Jane Griffiths.
PUBLICATIONS:
Rose's poem, "Math & the Garden," will appear in Initiate: An Oxford Anthology of New Writing, an anthology from Oxford Unviersity Press and Blackwell Books.
Rose's poem, “To the Wine-Taster,” appears in The Poet's Cookbook, from Bordighera Press/Purdue University. Read a review of the book here.
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.
Rose is a longtime faculty member of the Writer's Center, in Bethesda, Maryland, and recently joined the Board of Directors there.
