CURRENT NEWS: (4/23/12):
Publications:
Rose's first novel, A Secret Woman, is "a sexy romp through time and space, a profound meditation on the mother-daughter connection, and an enlightening exploration of what it means to make love, to make art, and to make a life worth living."
You can order it here.
Events, Spring 2012, UK:
Poetry Reading, Thursday, May 10, 7:30 p.m., at the Albion Beatnik Bookstore, 34 Walton Street, Jericho, Oxford. Rose reads with members of the Back Room poets. Admission is £4.
The first official launch party for A Secret Woman, Thursday, June 14 at 7:00 p.m., at The Old Bank Hotel, 92-94 High Street, The Gallery Room, Oxford, England. There will be beer, wine, and prosecco, as well as snacks from the Old Bank's fabulous restaurant menu, remarks by co-publisher Chris Andrews, and a reading from the book by Rose. The novel and other ASP books will be available for purchase. The event is free and open to the public.
Poetry:Rose has new work forthcoming in The Potomac Review, and Gargoyle. Her award-winning first book of poems, Difficult Weather, will go into a second edition in April 2012 to coincide with the publication of A Secret Woman.
Teaching:
In 2012, Rose is spending two terms with Kellogg College, University of Oxford, England, as a Research Member, attached to the Centre for Creative Writing. She will be offering various poetry surgeries, or indvidual conferences and critiques, as part of her work there, as well as a seminar on fiction in June.
See Rose talk about her most recent collection of poems, Orpheus in the Park and read a poem here.
Hear Rose read a poem:
 Achilles on Shore
My Mother's Piano
At right, Rose being interviewed on BBC Radio, along with David Pike, British poet and editor of Pulsar poetry magazine.
Rose Solari is the author of two full-length collections of poems, Orpheus in the Park and Difficult Weather, as well as the multi-media play Looking for Guenevere, an Arthurian retelling. She has lectured and taught writing workshops at many institutions, including the University of Maryland, St. John's College, Annapolis, the Jung Society of Washington, and The Writer's Center. Her work as a journalist includes positions as staff writer and editor for Common Boundary Magazine and for SportsFan Magazine, the latter of which she also helped to found.
Her awards include the Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize, The Columbia Book Award, and an EMMA award for Excellence in journalism. A Secret Woman is her first novel.
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